Crime & Safety

'Top 10 Wanted' Fugitive Cuffed After Crash, Chase In SF Valley

The Texas murder suspect reportedly was tracked down after posting photos of weapons on Instagram.

WOODLAND HILLS, CA – Two men, one reported to be a murder suspect and fugitive from Texas, were arrested early Tuesday after a search following a pursuit crash in Woodland Hills, police said.

The crash was reported shortly after 12:30 a.m. in the area of West Chester Drive and Kingsboro Way, the Los Angeles Police Department reported. The men bailed from the vehicle on foot and were found a short time later, police said.

One of the suspects was wanted in a homicide in Dallas and is a fugitive on Texas' Top 10 Most Wanted List, police told reporters at the scene.

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The murder suspect tipped police off to his location after he used the Instagram live feature to show off guns, CBS2 reported.

The names of the suspects were not immediately released by police, however CBS Los Angles reported the "most wanted" man as Christopher Ricardo Gonzalez, 18, also known as “Little Chris.”

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--City News Service contributed to this report/Image via Renee Schaivone

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