Car chase ends with guns drawn along Route 28
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Alleged homicide suspects were taken down at a busy intersection in the middle of traffic.
The whole thing was captured on a cell phone video this afternoon.
The video was captured around noon at the Harmarville exit off Route 28. Harmar police had a car pulled over with guns drawn.
The woman who took the video said the officer had the gun pointed at a man in the driver's seat. She also said another man — a passenger — took off from the car and was quickly caught by another officer on the scene.
She said this all unfolded in a matter of minutes, with police from multiple departments responding. Police sources told KDKA this was a chase that started in the city of Pittsburgh involving alleged homicide suspects.
City police were reportedly told to fall back, and Harmar police intercepted the chase when the car entered the area.
Dana Samarco told KDKA she was heading home to Springdale, took the Harmarville exit off Route 28, and drove straight into the most unexpected situation.
With her two kids in the back seat, the tail end of a police chase was unfolding right before her eyes.
"I [saw] the cop pulling up next to me. He didn't have any lights on or anything. He just pulled up quietly. He just got out of the car and started walking over towards us. I'm like, 'what is going on right now?'" Samarco said.
"He ran right towards the cop. He must have had his gun drawn. He was right down on the ground."
This, according to Pittsburgh Police, was the end result of a chase that started in Mt. Washington. Officers were trying to execute a search warrant for a car in connection with a shooting on Wilbur Street last week.
The driver, 24-year-old Allan Littlejohn, with 21-year-old Carter Hodges in the passenger seat, led police on a chase down Route 28 before being caught at an intersection a short time later by Harmar police and taken into custody.
Both Littlejohn and Hodges are being held in the Allegheny County Jail.
"Wrong place wrong time. Or right place right time. I don't know what you think of it," Samarco said.