California Highway Patrol officers began chasing the man in a SUV around 11:45 p.m. Tuesday as he drove at speeds topping 130 mph, the CHP said.
A man who led authorities on a high-speed pursuit, firing shots at pursuing officers, authorities said, was barricaded Wednesday, Dec. 21, in a Lancaster mobile home park with a year-old infant.
California Highway Patrol officers began chasing the man in a white Kia SUV around 11:45 p.m. Tuesday as he drove at speeds topping 130 mph, CHP Officer Patrick Kimball said. CHP Sgt. Alejandro Rubio told reporters that during the chase, which traveled on multiple freeways and surface streets in the Palmdale and Lancaster areas, the suspect called the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and said he had a gun and a child in the vehicle, and he threatened to shoot at pursuing officers if they didn’t break away from the pursuit.
At about 1 a.m., the suspect fired shots at officers near 17th Avenue East and Avenue Q, Rubio said, but no officers or vehicles were struck by the gunfire. The suspect eventually came to a stop outside the Lido Estates mobile home park in the 2500 block of East Avenue I and exited the SUV while holding a gun to the infant’s head, Rubio said. The suspect then backed slowly into a mobile home, beginning the standoff, which was continuing late Wednesday morning.
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