The moment police rammed into a carjacked car in Torrance, California on Thursday, causing it to spin out and hit a 66-year-old woman who was crossing the street carrying shopping bags, sending her flying to the curb, was captured on video. It was done.
What are the details?
Around 12:50 p.m., the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department notified Torrance police that officers were pursuing a carjacking suspect who had stolen several vehicles, according to the city.
news release, and the suspect was said to have entered Torrance. Torrance is about 30 minutes southwest of Los Angeles.
Torrance police learned a minute later that the suspect had entered the Del Amo Fashion Center parking lot. Then, around 12:55 p.m., a woman reported a carjacking near the area where the pursuit suspect was last seen.
Around that time, police said they spotted a male suspect driving the carjacked vehicle, a silver Prius, leaving the Del Amo Fashion Center and began tracking the driver.
Video shows the fleeing driver speeding onto the wrong side of the road, ignoring a traffic light and jumping onto a curb, knocking over a utility pole. KNBC TV reported.
Police say a Torrance officer crashed a vehicle near Vermont Avenue and Sepulveda Boulevard, and the vehicle struck a pedestrian. Video shows the pedestrian flying backwards into the curb after being hit.
After a brief foot pursuit, police said they arrested the suspect without incident and released him into the custody of the originating authority, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Police said Torrance officers spoke with the carjacking victim and the woman who was hit at the intersection, but no serious injuries were reported at this time. Police added that the woman who was struck refused emergency medical services at the scene and left voluntarily. Torrance police said they were later told she went to the hospital.
Beaten woman and daughter speak out
“I was crossing the road, but I don't remember anything,” said Maria Salazar, the woman who was hit.
telemundo 52, according to KNBC. “I just felt a shock.”
Salazar's daughter Diana, who is still trying to understand the situation, said, “I don't know why they went after him. There was an urgency to stop him. They were my mother. I don't know if I saw it,” he said.
Torrance Police told KNBC that all officers are trained in PIT exercises. The abbreviation is Precise immobilization technologyThis “applies lateral pressure to the rear quarter panel of the fleeing target vehicle, resulting in a predictable spin-out motion of the target vehicle,” police said in a news release. There was no indication that it had been done.
KNBC said the carjacking suspect's identity and other details were not immediately available.
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