Car chase ends with police-involved shooting

THE BRONX (WABC) -- A car pursuit that spanned 2 boroughs ended with a police-involved shooting Saturday night.

Police accidental this shooting happened successful the Grand Concourse conception astatine 161 Street and Summit Avenue, but the incidental really started erstwhile they received a telephone astir a car being breached into successful Manhattan.

Officers arrived astatine the archetypal country astatine 149 Street and Convent Avenue successful Hamilton Heights to cheque retired the car break-in.

Once they were moving that scene, they saw a car driving recklessly adjacent by, officials said.

Police started to pursuit that reckless operator and ended successful the Bronx, wherever they arrested 1 of the radical successful that car.

Officials accidental different fishy fled into a marshy country adjacent the Major Deegan Expressway. A fewer minutes later, the fishy pointed a limb and police.

"At this time, members of the 3-0 Precinct prosecute this idiosyncratic successful an speech of gunfire. After this speech of gunfire, the idiosyncratic runs into the marsh country close present adjacent to the Major Deegan and a 2nd gunfire speech occurs," NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said.

The constabulary main said the fishy was changeable successful the caput and leg. The 39-year-old is known to the constabulary and is successful captious information astatine a section hospital.

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