Death by Cop 2022-2024
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Name Not Disclosed
Gender : Male
Age : 24
Race : Unknown
Date : 11/20/2023
Location : LaPalma
City : Buena Park
County : Orange
State : California
Agency : Buena Park
Officer(s) :Unknown
Cause of Death : Vehicle
Event : Killed by police chase crash
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
At a McDonald’s at drive-through, 4 police cars surrounded a black vehicle that was in the line and was swarmed by police while waiting for a food order. A police vehicle reportedly deliberately ran into the black vehicles and performed a PIT maneuver. The vehicle fled at high speed with a very aggressive police chase after it.
An eyewitness described that it sounded like a bomb going off when the vehicle crashed into a white Mercedes at such high speeds due to the chase that one of the vehicles split in half. Four people in the Mercedes including 2 children were taken away, reportedly injured and in unknown condition. The engine of the Mercedes was found outside of the car 30 feet away.
One person was declared dead at the scene. Four others were injured with some having to be cut out of the vehicles. A crushed bicycle was seen at the scene with a bicyclist becoming the fifth injured person also hit by the police chase and being transported to the hospital in unknown condition.
A DPS trooper allegedly tried to stop a Kia with 6 people in it but the vehicle did not stop. Police escalated a chase to high speeds that ended when the vehicle crashed while being chased. Two people died and 4 others were transported to hospitals. The vehicle was reportedly chased for a traffic violation.
