A woman and her two children are thankful to be alive after her ex-boyfriend led police on a 125 mile-per-hour chase down the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
"He was saying, 'We're all dying together. We're all going to go to Heaven. Kiss the kids goodbye,'" said Ernestine Pearson, the suspect's former girlfriend.
Peason's ex-boyfriend, Kabril Keyes, was behind the wheel.
State Police said it all started when Keyes forced his way into Pearson's apartment near Wilkes-Barre Thursday afternoon, then kidnapped her and her two young kids at knife point .
A police chase spilled onto the Turnpike's Northeast Extension and spanned two counties.
Troopers said Keyes collided with several other cars, including a State Police cruiser, before violently crashing at Mile Marker 80 in Carbon County.
"Hitting cars, other cars," said Pearson. "My car is totalled."
Police believe Keyes intentionally tried to drive off the highway at 100 miles an hour -- with his ex and her kids still inside.
"The words he was saying was, 'We're all going to die together. Tell the kids goodbye,'" she said. "And he just tried to go off the road while we were all in the car."
Authorities called this a classic case of domestic violence. Keyes was actually out on bail after allegedly trying to set Pearson on fire last summer.
In this case, Keyes' own mother called 911. Barbarta Ann Keyes told state police that her son had "snapped," was holding a knife, and telling the victim to "tell me the truth."
"The things he was saying while he was in the house, telling his mom she should leave. She don't want to witness anything," said Pearson. "He's going to do life [in prison] or he's going to be dead too."
Pearson also obtained a protective order against Keyes on June 9, a few days after he pounded on the door and windows of her apartment with a hammer.
She said he knocked her down when she let him in, stomped on her leg and kicked her "in private areas." When she got up to call police, he roughed her up in front of the children, who were screaming and crying.
In that protection from abuse order, she said on previous occasions the defendant burned her arm with a heater and forced her out of the place where they were living.
On another occasion, she reported that he put a gun to her head when she asked for child support.
Keyes now faces 20 different criminal charges, including kidnapping and aggravated assault.
He is now in jail under $500,000 bond.
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