DEPUTIES HUNT FOR GANGSTER.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Sheriff's deputies Saturday hunted a street-gang member suspected of an assault at a mobile home park, then of trying to carjack car·jack or car-jack tr.v. car·jacked, car·jack·ing, car·jacks To commit forcible theft of (a vehicle) from its users. [car + (hi)jack. motorists after crashing his stolen getaway car getaway car n the thieves' getaway car → el coche en que huyeron los ladrones getaway car n → voiture prévue pour prendre la fuite . The man ran inside a Rancho ran·cho n. pl. ran·chos Southwestern U.S. 1. A hut or group of huts for housing ranch workers. 2. A ranch. Vista supermarket, prompting evacuation evacuation /evac·u·a·tion/ (e-vak?u-a´shun) 1. an emptying. 2. catharsis; emptying of the bowels. e·vac·u·a·tion n. of the surrounding shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into , but apparently got away by paying somebody to give him a ride, deputies said. They were searching for him in Lancaster. Deputies said they were told the man had either pointed a gun at or actually shot at a person about 4 p.m. Saturday at a mobile home park in the the 5700 block of West Avenue M in Quartz Hill. Speeding away down Rancho Vista Boulevard, the man crashed the stolen car he was driving near the Vons shopping center at 30th Street West. The man then reportedly tried to carjack one or two motorists in the parking lot, but didn't get their cars. The man ran into the supermarket, deputies said. Deputies surrounded supermarket, blocked traffic on nearby streets and called in a police dog to search the building. But they said later they believed the man had gotten away. |
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