18-year-old Joseph Aigner of Sheffield was said to had been missing from a Huntsville area group home since October. However, a new details on his death has been released by Lauderdale County coroner.
According Coroner’s Butch Tucker, Aigner was driving a stolen SUV when he crashed on Highway 72 about 2.5 miles west of Rogersville, near the Meadow Ridge subdivision.
Tucker said Florence police officers were chasing Aigner when the 2018 Mitsubishi Highlander went off the road, flipping multiple times and ejecting him from the vehicle. First responders transported Aigner to the North Alabama Medical Center where he died.