The man killed by Spokane police after a chase had a history of eluding and assaulting officers.

But police don't know why 52-year-old Jacob I. Dorfman led officers on a chaotic race through a South Hill neighborhood early Tuesday morning, crashing through fences and tearing across lawns. He was shot and killed by police.

The Spokesman-Review reported Wednesday that court records show Dorfman was arrested in 2005 on two counts of third-degree assault of a law enforcement officer. A year earlier, he was arrested for eluding a police officer and passing bad checks and later was sent to prison for robbery and burglary convictions out of Grant County.

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Information from: The Spokesman-Review, http://www.spokesman.com