Police chased a car containing a possible murder suspect through the streets of North Hollywood Monday evening at high speeds, a pursuit that ended when the driver fled from the vehicle, appeared to carjack an SUV and then quickly collided head-on into a police cruiser.
The chase began and ended in North Hollywood with a foray into Burbank.
The speeding car, with three people inside, raced on surface streets and the Golden State (5) Freeway, narrowly missing other vehicles and pedestrians and at one point plowing into some trash cans.
Two people bailed out of the car in the course of the chase and one was taken into custody, ABC7 reported.
Police searched for one suspect near the area where the chase ended, Fox11 said.
The driver eventually abandoned the car and fled from police on foot. He ran through a park for several minutes, at one point running across a pedestrian bridge spanning the 170 Freeway, before he appeared to carjack the SUV, with its driver running to safety. The suspect didn’t get far, as a police SUV quickly moved in and the two SUVs collided head-on in the area of Sherman Way and Whitsett Avenue.
The suspect was then taken into custody. NBC4 reported that one of the suspects was a murder suspect.
“Obviously, very dangerous situation,” LAPD Capt. Craig Valenzuela told reporters at the scene. “It appears as though no one was seriously injured. So, for that, I think we’re very lucky and very thankful.”
No weapon was recovered by police, Fox11 reported.