A chook’s-eye view of a three-car crash in Los Angeles — which led to a wild manhunt through which police shot the spouse of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner — exhibits officers arresting a suspect in his boxers after he stripped right down to evade seize.
The chaos unfolded round 3 p.m. Tuesday when the California Freeway Patrol responded to a multi-vehicle hit-and-run eastbound on the Ventura Freeway, KTLA reported.
Three male suspects have been reported to have fled from the crash on foot — which launched an enormous manhunt involving the CHP and Los Angeles Police Division.
KTLA’s helicopter, Sky5, captured the second officers have been arresting one of many suspects, clad solely in his underwear.
The suspect had allegedly stripped right down to his boxers whereas fleeing the hit-and-run and tried mixing into the neighborhood of Eagle Rock in downtown LA by leaping right into a pool of a house and watering vegetation, in response to the outlet.
A brother and sister, Alana Altmeyer and Man Binn, witnesses to the crash, noticed the suspects making an attempt to flee, and so they each began chasing after them.
“I noticed a gentleman strolling on the shoulder,” Altmeyer instructed KTLA. “So my brother and I went over and assumed that he was leaving the scene of an accident.”
When the suspects realized that the siblings have been making an attempt to cease them, they took off working.
Through the escape, one of many males tripped and fell whereas making an attempt to cross the busy California freeway.
Altmeyer stated the person appeared injured and was “bleeding from his head, his mouth and his knees” however bought up and continued to flee and ultimately ran down an embankment on the alternative aspect of the freeway, KTLA reported.
Nevertheless, Binn was nonetheless sizzling on the suspect’s path.
“I chased him down the aspect of the freeway, throughout the freeway, over a few fences,” Binn instructed KTLA.
“He had a bag and a sweater. I bought his bag. I bought his sweater and me being so previous, I couldn’t sustain with the man. I chased him to the park, and I misplaced him.”
The suspect was the identical man who stripped right down to his boxers and was nabbed by CHP officers about an hour and a half after the hit-and-run. Two of the opposite suspects stay at massive, KTLA reported.
However the chaos didn’t finish there.
The large police presence within the neighborhood to search out the opposite suspects led officers to Eagle Vista Drive, the place a girl — now recognized because the spouse of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, Jillian — was armed with a handgun exterior her residence.
Officers yelled for Jillian, 51, to drop the gun “quite a few occasions” — however she refused.
She then allegedly pointed the handgun on the officers, and so they opened hearth, hitting her within the shoulder, TMZ reported.
Jillian retreated into her residence however ultimately got here exterior with one other feminine, recognized because the household’s baby-sitter, and surrendered.
KTLA’s chopper caught the second each ladies have been ordered to come back down the driveway of the house with their fingers raised and lie face down on the road. Cops in tactical gear have been seen inserting each ladies in cuffs.
After the 2 have been in custody, a younger boy got here out of the house together with his fingers up.
The self-described rock-wife was transported to an area hospital by Los Angeles Hearth Division paramedics, the place she was handled for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Police additionally disclosed they recovered a 9-millimeter handgun from her dwelling.
Jillian has since been booked for tried homicide, in response to TMZ.
Each Jillian and the baby-sitter have since been launched from police custody.
As for the hit-and-run, KTLA reported {that a} girl suffered reasonable accidents within the crash and was transported to the hospital. No officers have been damage in both incident.
