Pursuit suspect crashes into innocent driver in LA's Mid-Wilshire neighborhood
A driver fleeing from police crashed into an innocent driver in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles Thursday afternoon.
The chase started earlier about 10 miles away in the city of Marina del Rey, where deputies received a report of a robbery involving a weapon, according to LA County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Pickerel. Deputies started pursuing a vehicle matching the description given in the robbery call before Los Angeles Police Department officers took over the chase.
Pickerel said there was only one suspect in the robbery and it's unclear if anyone was injured or any shots were fired.
At about 3 p.m., SkyCal was overhead just as the chase was coming to an end, with a black sedan seen speeding through the streets of Koreatown before going further west into the Mid-Wilshire area. It was traveling at about 80 miles per hour when it slammed into a white SUV at the intersection of West 5th Street and South Wilton Place at 3:09 p.m.
The impact sent the SUV spinning in a circle before it was flung onto a sidewalk at one corner of the intersection. Meanwhile, the sedan swerved off the road and onto another part of the sidewalk.
A person inside the black car then ran from the wreckage and went inside a nearby building.
Officers were seen standing just outside the building, and moments later, a few of them surrounded the suspect's car. They pulled another individual out and placed them into handcuffs. At 3:13 p.m., at least six officers walked towards the building where the suspect had fled inside, keeping their firearms raised as they walked through a parking area just outside the building.
The person handcuffed by officers was later seen being placed onto a stretcher and into an ambulance. More than a dozen police patrol vehicles remained parked at the intersection where the crash happened as officers continued to investigate.
As of 3:35 p.m., it appears the person who ran out of the car remains at large as they were not seen being taken into custody and authorities have not said that individual has been arrested.
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