Jason Hanna,

CNN Recaptured Alabama fugitive Casey White intended to have a shootout with law enforcement, and would have done so had pursuing officers not forced him into a ditch in Evansville, Indiana, a sheriff said Tuesday. The crash ended White’s 11-day run on the lam with former corrections officer Vicky White, the woman accused of springing him from an Alabama county jail April 29. Authorities preliminarily believe fatally shot herself after the wreck. Officers who were tipped the pair were in Evansville Monday, and had the pursuers not forced them into a ditch, “the fugitive was going to engage in a shootout with law enforcement,” Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding told reporters Tuesday. “(Casey White) said he probably going to have a shootout, at the stake of many of my deputies (and other officers’) lives,” Wedding said. Plenty of questions remain about the actions of the pair, who authorities said may have fostered a clandestine, romantic relationship when the man normally housed in state prison intermittently stayed at a county jail while awaiting trial in a pending murder case. Their travels – which authorities say involved at least four vehicles from Alabama to Indiana – sparked a multistate manhunt. But they appeared equipped for more hiding: In the Cadillac, police found wigs, four handguns, an AR-15 rifle and about $29,000 in cash, Wedning said Tuesday. Police previously said Vicky White probably was using cash from a recent home sale. The pair ended up being in Evansville for a week but had paid for a 14-day stay at the motel. A third person may have helped the couple book the motel room, according to a preliminary investigation. Casey White and Vicky White tried to get a room initially but could not because she did not have identification.