100-mph car pursue completes with federal agents shooting suspect at Mexican border
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A suspect in the carjacking of a sedan who led the California Highway Patrol (CHP) on a high-speed pursue from Riverside County to Otay Mesa was shot and killed by Customs officers at the border station there
“The CHP terminated their pursuit of the vehicle which continued to the border where the vehicle stopped, then began to back up before going forward again,” San Diego Police Lt. Lee Norton said. “At that point, Customs
officers felt threatened and they fired on the vehicle striking and killing the masculine driver.”
The shooting victim was not identified. No law enforcement officers were injured.
Norton said homicide detectives were investigating the incident and that the Otay Mesa Border Patrol Station would remain closed until that investigation is finish.
Travelers are being urged to divert to the Tecate or San Ysidro points of entry along the U.S-Mexico border.
Customs agents opened fire at Ten:34 a.m. in the southbound lanes of the border crossing, just north of Tijuana and at the end of state Route 905. The shooting followed a the wild pursue from Riverside County seventy five miles to the Mexican border.
In the Riverside County town of Perris, a sheriff’s deputy heard a call about a carjacked silver Chevrolet Impala, and at 9:33 a.m. began pursuing it. A high-speed pursue across surface streets reached Interstate 215, and the car was
California Highway Patrol officers picked up the pursue, Riverside County sheriff’s Deputy Mike Vasquez said.
After passing through Murrieta and Temecula just before ten a.m., CHP officers from the Inland Empire transferred off the pursue to their colleagues working out of Oceanside, as the Impala sped at about one hundred mph into San Diego County.
The pursue traversed San Diego on Interstate fifteen and other freeways. The motorist then veered east on Route 905, the access road to the eastern border crossing at Otay Mesa that is an effective dead end.
San Diego police say there was officer-involved shooting and that homicide detectives are at the Otay Mesa Border Inspection Station, where a police pursue from Riverside County ended with gunfire this morning. Unconfirmed
reports are that federal agents fired weapons at the conclusion of the pursue.
No public agency will say if someone was shot or killed, albeit the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department said it did not transport any injured people from the scene.
PERRIS – A suspected carjacker led California Highway Patrol officers in a wild, 100-mph pursue today from Perris through San Diego to the Mexican border today, where a shooting was reported.
Shots were reported by law officers on police radios at Ten:34 a.m. near the end of state Route nine hundred five at the border inspection stations east of San Ysidro. It was not instantly clear if anyone was injured or killed at the end of the 75-mile pursue.
The pursue had commenced at 9:39 a.m. when the suspect, inwards a silver Chevrolet Impala, was seen passing crimson traffic lights on surface streets in Perris, in western Riverside County.
Riverside County sheriff’s deputies chased the car onto southbound Interstate two hundred fifteen in Perris, and passed off the pursue to the CHP as the car moved south on the two hundred fifteen and then Interstate fifteen through Murrieta and Temecula.
Just before ten a.m., CHP officers from the Inland Empire transferred off the pursue to their colleagues working out of Oceanside, as the Impala sped at speeds of one hundred mph into San Diego County.
The pursue traversed San Diego on Interstate fifteen and other freeways. The motorist then veered east on Route 905, the access road to the eastern border crossing at Otay Mesa that is an effective dead end.
San Diego Fire-rescue dispatchers said two fire engines had left the shooting scene a half hour after the shots. A paramedic truck, however, remained there, and the dispatcher said no one was taken to a hospital.
It was not instantaneously known if that meant no one was shot, or if a person had been killed.
San Diego Fire-Rescue dispatchers now say that their fire engines have left the scene, and no one will be transported away from the shooting scene at Otay Mesa. A paramedic truck remains at the border station, dispatchers do not, however, know if anyone was shot.
The CHP can only confirm that shots were fired by unknown persons, possibly law officers, at the border at Ten:34 a.m.
A suspected carjacker led California Highway Patrol officers in a wild, 100-mph pursue today from Perris through Temecula, Murrieta, and Fallbrook to the Mexican border today, where a shooting was reported.
Shots were reported by law officers on police radios just after Ten:30 a.m., near the end of state Route nine hundred five at the border inspection stations east of San Ysidro.
The pursue had commenced at 9:39 a.m. when the suspect, inwards a silver Chevrolet Impala, was seen passing crimson traffic lights on surface streets in Perris, in western Riverside County.
The car was driven onto southbound Interstate two hundred fifteen in Perris, and then transitioned onto southbound Interstate fifteen through Murrieta and Temecula.
Just before ten a.m., CHP officers from the Inland Empire transferred off the 75-mile pursue to their colleagues working out of Oceanside, as the Impala sped at speeds of one hundred mph into San Diego County.
The pursue traversed San Diego on Interstate fifteen and other freeways. The motorist then veered east on Route 905, the access road to the eastern border crossing at Otay Mesa that is effectively a dead end.
The shooting reports were not confirmed, but police were at the border gate.
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