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MINNEAPOLIS (KFGO) – Two women are dead and a child injured after a carjacking suspect fleeing police crashed into a vehicle at a busy north Minneapolis intersection on Thursday morning.
Police Chief Brian O’Hara said his department was alerted to reports of a person with a gun just after 8 a.m. It was soon updated to a carjacking in progress. Witnesses said a man driving in an SUV was traveling in a “flagrantly reckless manner,” speeding and swerving into oncoming traffic, and even driving on sidewalks on Lake Street, O’Hara said.
The suspect then crashed, pulled out a gun and tried to carjack a driver at a red light. That driver was able to drive away, but the suspect then “violently carjacked” a woman in a car at gunpoint. The suspect was seen driving recklessly downtown, and then was spotted in north Minneapolis. Officers initiated a pursuit, which ended on Highway 55. No squad cars were involved in the collision.
The two women inside the other vehicle were dead at the scene, while the child with them suffered injuries, but is expected to recover. The suspect was arrested at the crash scene and taken to North Memorial Health in Robbinsdale non-life threatening injuries.
O’Hara said a gun was recovered from the suspect’s stolen car. He said department pursuit policies were followed.
The Minnesota State Patrol will conduct the crash investigation.
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