Gassville, Ark. ? A teenager suspected of a hatchet-and-gun attack in a Massachusetts gay bar shot and killed a small-town police officer and the teen’s passenger before he was critically wounded in a gun battle with police Saturday, authorities said.

Jacob D. Robida, 18, was shot twice in the head, and “it doesn’t look good right now,” said Massachusetts prosecutor Paul Walsh Jr.

Walsh said the teen shot Officer Jim Sell, 56, twice during a traffic stop in this northern Arkansas town.

About 25 miles away, Robida sped over spike strips set out by state troopers but continued to drive with two punctured tires into downtown Norfork. Robida’s car then careened into several parked vehicles to avoid a police barricade.

“When he wrecked he started firing at our officer and a state police officer, and the officers returned fire,” said Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery.

The teen shot the woman in the car with him before he was wounded in the shootout with police, Walsh said. State police wouldn’t confirm Walsh’s account and said ballistics tests would determine how the woman died.

His passenger was Jennifer Rena Bailey, 33, of Charleston, W. Va., the West Virginia State Police said.

Robida had apparently picked Bailey up at her home, Ellyson said.

Investigators had searched for Robida since Thursday’s attack at Puzzles Lounge in New Bedford, Mass., that left three men wounded, one critically.

Police have labeled the incident a hate crime and said Robida would be charged with attempted murder, assault and civil rights violations.

Robida was a high school dropout who friends say glorified Naziism but never expressed any specific prejudice against gays.