Posted on 09/19/2015 9:54:24 PM PDT by Enlightened1
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) -- San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies in a helicopter shot a suspect involved in a dangerous wrong-way chase and car crash on the northbound 215 Freeway Friday afternoon.
On Saturday, the coroner's office identified the suspect as Nicholas Alan Johnson, 32, of Fontana.
Two cars were involved in the crash near Palm Avenue. A man and a 13-year-old male were treated and released from the hospital. An adult female, believed to be the man's wife, remains hospitalized and is recovering from her injuries.
The suspect was wanted in connection to a prior home-invasion robbery in Fontana. Authorities recognized the suspect's beige Chevrolet Tahoe on Friday around 12:49 p.m. and attempted to conduct a traffic stop when a chase ensued.
The suspect led authorities on a chase through surface streets in Fontana and San Bernardino before he started driving the wrong way in the northbound lanes of the 215 Freeway. At one point, the suspect sideswiped another car.
The suspect reached speeds as high as 100 mph, according to Deputy Olivia Bozek with the sheriff's department.
Deputies inside a sheriff's helicopter realized the suspect was a threat to the public's safety and began firing shots at his car. He then bailed out of the moving vehicle, which then crashed head-on into a blue Dodge Durango.
The suspect eventually collapsed on the side of the road not far from the crash and died. Authorities said the suspe
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Nah. They will use manned craft. There is no thrill when they use unmanned craft. They got to have the orgasm.
Love the misleading headline....he was armed carjacking,suspect but they make it out like he was shot for driving wrong way on one way street
LOL!
Good one!
If it’s as reported, the shooting was justified.
Well he was going 100 mph on the wrong side of the 215 freeway at one point. That’s apparently when the cops decided that everyone else would be safer if someone shot him.
Wow. They didn’t cut that guy any slack at all.
Not really, the LE officer sniper gave the round the appropriate lead time with windage, and thats not easy when the helicopter is near the same speed.
It’s referred to as “the totality of.the circumstances”
Wow. They didn’t cut that guy any slack at all.
Not really, the LE officer sniper gave the round the appropriate lead time with windage, and thats not easy when the helicopter is near the same speed.
LOL I was referring to the video game scene that somebody posted. I was being funny and should have put /s
You’re right about that being a good shot under all those conditions.
Drones might make sense in San Bernardino county. It’s larger than nine of the United States and in fact it’s larger than 71 countries.
My 15 year old daughyter said each police car should carry a Panzerfaust so when people run in their cars the police could blow them up! After a few cars are blown up people would stop doing these high speed dangerious car chases. She may well be on to something.
Something needs to be done. Too many innocent people die in high speed chases.
San Bernadino’s sheriff is going to get a copy of the new LAPD helicopter -
Should be the course of action on each and every high speed chase. One warning then blow them away.
Home invasions??? OMG!! What COLOR is he?
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