A stolen car starred in a real film raid on the streets of the American city of Baltimore when his driver, wanting to escape the police, ended up triggering a series of events that included an accident, the collapse of a building and the death of a pedestrian.
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office released video of the incident on Thursday, which took place on February 8 at around 9:00 p.m. Police tried to stop a vehicle that was reported stolenas specified by the prosecutor’s office, which is investigating the case.
The car – a black Hyundai Sonata – fled and the police officers started chasing it at full speed, until, according to one of the videos of the event, the vehicle collided with another while going through a red light on the corner of North Wolfe and East Northe Avenues in eastern Baltimore.
Out of control, the Hyundai violently rammed a man -Alfred Fincher, 54 years old- who was walking along one of the sidewalks of the intersection and caused immediate death.
Both vehicles too They hit an abandoned house located right on 8th. After a timid initial upheaval, the two-story building Collapsedraining bricks and debris on the two cars.
In one of the videos of the accident it can be seen how the patrols begin to arrive at the scene of the accident and shortly after the police officers approach the vehicles to try to rescue the occupants of the cars which were almost completely covered in debris.
The police arrested the driver of the stolen vehicle. At least five other people were injured and hospitalized, none seriously.
ongoing investigation
Together with the disclosure of the videos of the facts, the prosecutor said yes has launched an investigation into officers who participated in the capture of the driver of the stolen caridentified as Shawn Lee Brunson, age 33.
Is that according to local law, the police can only chase a vehicle if it poses a direct threat or if there is a reasonable suspicion that the driver has committed an offense resulting in death or injury prior to the escape.
Maryland law prohibits initiating a pursuit if the initial offense is a property crime, such as vehicular theft or traffic violations.
Images from one of the videos released Thursday by the prosecution show that shortly before the crash, Officer Devon Yancy was chasing the stolen car for a distance of half a block.
In Yancy’s body camera footage, a supervisor can be heard on the police radio saying “stop (the chase),” and the police car’s engine stops revving, but the crash occurs seconds later.
Source: Clarin
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