MAN SHOT BY CHP CRITICAL FOLLOWING A 50-MILE PURSUIT, OFFICERS FIRED AFTER DRIVING REFUSED TO GET OUT OF HIS TRUCK.Byline: CHARLES F. BOSTWICK Staff Writer PALMDALE - A motorist shot by California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officers at the end of a 50-mile chase remained hospitalized in critical condition, officials said Wednesday. Authorities did not identify the man, believed to be a Palmdale resident, who was shot after he refused to get out of his pickup truck after it was nudged by a CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan patrol car and spun into a field. ``The driver started inching forward. Officers fearing for their lives ... shot him,'' CHP spokeswoman Officer Wendy Hahn said. Sheriff's homicide detectives, the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County District Attorney's Office and the CHP are all investigating the shooting, which occurred just after 8 p.m. Tuesday at Pearblossom Highway's Four Points intersection in east Palmdale. Hahn said sheriff's homicide detectives instructed the CHP not to release the man's name. Sheriff's officials referred inquiries to the CHP. Recorded by television news helicopters, the chase started just after 7 p.m. Tuesday when a CHP officer tried to pull over the Toyota pickup truck for an unsafe lane change on Victory Boulevard Victory Boulevard is a major thoroughfare on Staten Island, measuring approximately 8.0 miles (12.87 km) and stretching from the west shore community of Travis to the upper east shore communities of St. George and Tompkinsville. near Woodley Avenue, officials said. The pickup's driver refused to pull over and got onto the San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405, and the part of Interstate 5 south of the El Toro Y[1]) is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major beltway of I-5 running through Southern California. , then the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. and the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. , officials said. The truck got off the freeway at Pearblossom Highway. At the Four Points intersection, a CHP car nudged the truck as it made a left turn onto Fort Tejon Road. The truck spun into a field beside the road, and CHP cars closed in. At least five officers pointed pistols at the truck as its wheels spun and it moved back and forth. Hahn said she did not know how many officers fired. Three bullet holes were visible in the windshield. A CHP officer pulled the wounded man from the car, and paramedics took him to Antelope Valley Hospital. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color -- ran in AV edition only) A man wounded by CHP officers after a pursuit is loaded into an ambulance Tuesday night on Pearblossom Highway. Paul Weatherman/Special to the Daily News |
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