A carjacking suspect led police on a high-speed pursuit from South Los Angeles to Fountain Valley, where he surrendered, authorities said Monday.
The driver was nabbed but his woman passenger managed to escape at the end of the chase.
The pursuit started about 10:15 p.m. Sunday at Hoover Street and Florence Avenue when officers checked the license plate of a black Chevy Silverado pickup truck and found it was carjacked a few days earlier, said Sgt. Cory Meisner of the Los Angeles Police Department’s 77th Street Station.
The suspect, with a woman in the truck’s passenger seat, drove southbound on Hoover Street to the Glen Anderson (105) Freeway, eastbound to Studebaker Road in Norwalk, westbound in eastbound lanes on Imperial Highway through Downey, then turned eastbound again via Bellflower Boulevard and Rosecrans Avenue to the San Gabriel River (605) Freeway, according to police.
He then turned southbound on the San Diego (405) Freeway and got off at Brookhurst Street, abandoning the truck at Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center, where he gave up in the parking lot, police said.
The woman got away despite an extensive search of the area, Meisner said. It was a high-speed pursuit with speeds reported at 90 mph.
—City News Service