JURUPA VALLEY, Calif. (KABC) — A chase by the Inland Empire got here to a dramatic finish in Jurupa Valley on Wednesday afternoon when deputies tried to deploy a grappler device moments earlier than a significant crash.
A driver behind the wheel of a Cadillac led regulation enforcement on a chase backwards and forwards throughout Riverside and San Bernardino Counties for practically an hour earlier than it got here to an finish with a standoff at Bellegrave Avenue and Etiwanda Avenue subsequent to Jurupa Valley High School.
The driver sat on the intersection for a number of minutes, in a standoff with upwards of a dozen Riverside County Sheriff’s Department automobiles.
Then, the suspect took off once more, working over a spike strip. Within seconds, a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy acquired proper behind the Cadillac with a grappler device designed to assist stop pursuits by going underneath the car’s rear wheels, tying up the wheel and the axle.
The grappler did not connect to the Cadillac, and the motive force misplaced management, swerving throughout all lanes of Bellegrave Avenue between Etiwanda Avenue and Wineville Avenue.
AIR7 was dwell when the chase got here to a dramatic finish, with the suspect slamming head-on at full pace right into a concrete wall behind a close-by house.
A person in the yard heard the sirens, seemed over the wall, noticed the car approaching and ran out of the way in which simply in time.
The crash sparked one more standoff. An armored car pulled up behind the suspect’s car, in addition to a number of sheriff’s division patrol automobiles.
The entrance windshield of the Cadillac was shattered, and the car had heavy front-end harm. At one level, AIR7 video confirmed motion contained in the Cadillac after the crash.
It is unknown what sparked the chase in the primary place. At final verify, the standoff with the suspect was ongoing.
Eyewitness News has a crew on the scene and can proceed to replace this web page as new data turns into obtainable.
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