Carjacking Suspect Opens Fire During High Speed Tri-County Chase

LOS ANGELES, CA — A carjacking suspect was arrested after he led police on a wild high-speed chase in a pickup truck while reportedly shooting at pursuing officers on Orange and Los Angeles County freeways and sidestreets Friday afternoon.

The chase ended when the man sideswiped another vehicle and crashed into a pole near Western Avenue and 252nd Street in Harbor City. He then jumped out of the truck and was arrested after a brief foot pursuit.

He was not immediately identified and there was no information about his current condition.

The chase began in Corona in Riverside County, authorities said, before moving through the Anaheim area in Orange County, then into the Long Beach-Lakewood area in Los Angeles County before the suspect was arrested in Harbor City.

Along the way, the pursuit traveled freeways and local streets, and continued at times on the wrong side of the road.

At one point, the suspect met an intersection where school children were crossing in the Long Beach-Lakewood area of LA County, where he stopped to let the children cross safely before resuming his break from authorities.

The high-speed chase started around 3 p.m., and about a half hour later, the suspect fired the first of several bursts of gunshots at pursuing officers. Authorities reported a second round of fire shot at officers at around 3:50 p.m. on Bellflower Boulevard.

The suspect seemed to have been armed with a high-caliber, semiautomatic weapon.

There were no reported injuries.

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City News Service contributed to this report.

Correction: Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this article misstated where the chase began.