Multiple agencies are investigating after a man wanted for a domestic assault led authorities on a pursuit and caused a fatal crash in Maplewood Friday night.

According to the Roseville Police Department, officers were investigating a felony-level domestic assault on the 800 block of Grandview Avenue. The Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office says that Nicholas John Price, 37, had physically assaulted his ex-girlfriend and threatened to light her on fire.

Roseville police said the victim of the assault left the address and contacted police from a separate location; however, Price was believed to still be at the home. A Roseville officer drove to the area in an unmarked vehicle and saw Price leave the home and get into a car, according to police.

The officer followed Price to the area of County Road C and Rice Street, where law enforcement tried to use a PIT maneuver to stop the vehicle, but he was able to drive away into the city of Maplewood, according to Roseville police. Roseville officials said that officers lost sight of the car, ended their search along Little Canada Road near I-35E and requested help from other agencies.

The Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office said one of their deputies saw the car going south on Edgerton Street at a high rate of speed and tried to catch up to it for one mile. Because Price was driving too fast, authorities had trouble maintaining visual contact with the vehicle, according to the sheriff’s office.

The sheriff’s office said that while the deputy continued to follow, Price slammed into a car making a lefthand turn at the intersection of Bellwood Avenue and Edgerton Street in Maplewood at 10:30 p.m.

Price later told investigators he did not know he was still being followed by police at the time of the crash.

The lone occupant of the other vehicle was brought to the hospital, where he later died after suffering cardiac arrest, according to the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office. His identity has not yet been released.

Ramsey County officials say Price was arrested at the scene and brought to the hospital for treatment of injuries from the crash. He is currently in custody at Ramsey County Jail pending numerous charges, including criminal vehicular homicide.

According to the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office, Price has been arrested or charged 38 times in the last 14 years by eight different agencies. The crimes range from illegally carrying a firearm, burglary, felony domestic assault, fleeing police in motor vehicles and drunken driving.

The Roseville Police Department is investigating the felony domestic case and the initial pursuit within their city limits and the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the pursuit that resulted in the crash. The Minnesota State Patrol is assisting in the crash investigation.

Friday marked the third fatal police pursuit in the metro in a month, including another earlier this week. On Sunday, a driver fleeing Minnesota State Patrol in St. Paul crashed into a parked car, killing the person inside, according to Minnesota State Patrol.

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“It makes me sad, because so many people are affected by this,” said Jon Farris, founder of advocacy group Pursuit For Change.

Farris, who previously lived in the metro for a couple of decades, has been pushing for fewer police pursuits since his son was killed in Boston in 2007.

Farris said his son was riding home in a taxi when a fleeing SUV hit them.

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He argues pursuits involving alleged violent felonies are typically more justified. However, the majority of pursuits are still initiated over traffic violations, like the pursuit on Sunday, which was reportedly initiated for speeding.

“It’s never going to be zero,” Farris said. “I’ve never been an advocate saying that there are no reasons to pursue. There are some, but, you know, not many. It needs to be a really good decision if you’re going to put people’s lives at risk, including, which we didn’t mention, the law enforcement officers.”

“And there are 10s of 1000s of people, even in the 18 years that I’ve been doing it, that are out there that have been affected,” he continued. “And Lord knows how many hundreds of 1000s over, you know, over the history of police pursuits.”