A man wanted for assaulting a Los Angeles Police Department officer led police on a pursuit along surface streets in the southern part of Los Angeles before police used a Precision Immobilization Technique to stop him, authorities said Sunday.
Paramedics dispatched at 9:49 p.m. Saturday — at the end of the pursuit in the 1600 block of South Alameda Street — treated and transported three patients to a hospital, said Lyndsey Lantz of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Their conditions were not known.
The pursuit began about 9:10 p.m. Saturday, according to an LAPD spokeswoman who was not certain exactly where or how it started.
KCAL was overhead when officers closed in on the white pickup truck at 58th Place and Central Avenue and the suspect was shown backing the truck into patrol vehicles, which is considered an assault on a police officer, the spokeswoman said.
An officer attempted a PIT maneuver on Central Avenue but the truck did not spin around and the driver briefly hit speeds into the 70 mph range to get away.
Finally, a PIT maneuver at Alameda and 16th streets spun the truck around so that it could be surrounded by patrol vehicles and the man in a tank top and baggy shorts was taken into custody.