Utah Man on LSD Drove 130 MPH on His Way to Kill Claire McCaskill, Police Say

A Utah man who admitted to police that he was drunk and high on LSD and Adderall — and who hit speeds upward of 130 mph during a police chase late Tuesday morning — claimed he was on his way to assassinate former Missouri senator Claire McCaskill "if she wasn't dead already," police say.

Deseret News reports that George William Stahl, 36, of Cottonwood Heights, Utah, was clocked doing 115 mph on I-80 by a Utah State Trooper at about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday night, prompting an attempt at a traffic stop.

“I activated my emergency lights immediately and the vehicle appeared to accelerate faster and pull away from me," reads a police affidavit. "I caught up to the vehicle who was still traveling over 100 mph and the vehicle accelerated again and pulled away.”

According to local reports, the roadways were slick at the time due to a light snowfall. Despite this, the driver continued to accelerate, police say, hitting at least 130 mph before a second trooper stopped the vehicle with spike strips.

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