Pastor: Man killed by police chase suspect 'was really working to make a life for himself'

TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — His death came out of the blue. At age 23, it begs the question: How could this happen?

"Many times the answer that I give to that is there are no good answers," said Pastor Steve Yowell of View Acres Baptist Church, fondly recalling William Bruckman.

Bruckman was killed in a head-on collision on Highway 75 Wednesday morning. The suspect that caused the crash had been leading police on a chase after stealing an Oklahoma Natural Gas truck.

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"Very personable, very nice," Yowell said. "I just knew him as a young man who was really working to make a life for himself and to build a family."

A GoFundMepage has been set up to help Bruckman's family.

"The understanding as a pastor that we live in a fallen world, and so we understand that the things that we would consider bad things are going to happen, and they can happen to anybody at any time," he said. "Certainly our hearts go out to the family."