A man who led authorities on a chase Friday in a pickup truck that was reported stolen was taken into custody after he stopped the vehicle and ran inside a building in downtown Los Angeles.
The chase began about 12:15 p.m. Friday near Washington Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, in the Exposition Park area, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Officers pursued the truck on surface streets until the vehicle stopped about a half-hour afterward near Paloma Street and Pico Boulevard, downtown, where the man got out entered a commercial building, according to police and reports from the scene.
A short time later, the LAPD reported that the suspect had been taken into custody.
About that same time, paramedics were sent to the location on a report from police that a shooting had occurred, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported. Police could not confirm if any shots were fired by officers.
Paramedics took a man about 30 years of age to a hospital for treatment of an unspecified injury, the LAFD reported. It was not immediately known if the man had been wounded. The investigation was continuing.