A man was caught in a frantic police chase in California, USAlittered with car accidents, carjackings and home invasions as it traveled through Orange and Los Angeles counties.
Frantic police chase in California
At first, the authorities began chasing a man who was driving a sedan black due to a traffic violation near Knott’s Berry Farm. The suspect drove through Buena Park before getting out of the vehicle to try to steal a truck.
After a few failed attempts, he got back into the black sedan and continued driving before abandoning his car at a housing complex, where he ran before finding a white van.
the suspect stole the white truck and repeatedly rammed a police cruiser before driving off. “My refrigerated van was so heavy that it was able to push the police car out of its way by backing up, ramming it and getting out,” said the owner of the stolen van, Josh Reynolds.
However, during the chase, the suspect left rear tire blew out, so he had to drive into a gas station with sparks coming from the exposed edge. Shortly after leaving the station, the driver collided with a parked car. He hit the gas, creating a huge cloud of smoke before jumping out of the truck and running from the police again.
After this, he ran through a nearby neighborhood, evading the police before break into a house and steal the keys to a van. Residents were home at the time and briefly scuffled with the man, even showing him a knife as he tried to drive the truck away from him.
“I told him I’m going to have to stab you Right now, brother,” said the victim of the truck theft, Andrés Benítez. He added: “But my mom kept screaming and screaming. She saw that my mom was holding me and she just left the house ».
Benítez indicated that he and his brother they just bought the truck less than a month ago. “It makes me very angry because that was a huge investment that I had just made with my brother, about a month ago, less than a month,” Benitez said. To proceed to add that “Just to see that new truck get stolen with all the equipment in there, it’s just heartbreaking.”
end of the chase
The frantic police chase followed as the suspect drove on the wrong side of the road, nearly colliding with oncoming traffic. However, it did not last much longer as the suspect collided with another vehicle before being rammed by a police patrol.
The vehicle continued to drive towards a gas station, before hitting a bomb and backing up. The officers opened fire on the suspect, but apparently did not see him despite striking the stolen truck multiple times. After a brief standoff, officers approached the car with ballistic shields and took the suspect into custody, ending the wild chase.
From all this frantic pursuit a total of three people were taken to hospital, with crash-related injuries. But, no one was hospitalized for a gunshot wound.
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