A male suspect was wounded Thursday when San Diego police opened fire on him following a chase that ended in a chain-reaction crash.
The pursuit from Lincoln Park to the La Presa community began shortly after 12:30 p.m., when a patrol tried to pull over the suspect in the vicinity of Euclid and Imperial avenues, SDPD Officer Colin Steinbroner said.
The driver of the vehicle, said to be stolen, refused to yield and fled to the east, eventually leading officers to the unincorporated area north of Sweetwater Reservoir.
There, the fleeing suspect lost control of the stolen car, sending it crashing off the roadway at Gillespie Drive and Jamacha Road at about 1:30 p.m., Steinbroner said. The vehicle struck a light pole, which then fell onto an SDPD cruiser, the spokesman said. At that point, one or more officers opened fire, wounding the man.
Paramedics took the suspect to a trauma center.
An officer was treated at the scene of the shooting for cuts suffered when the pole broke a window on a patrol vehicle, Steinbroner said.
It was not immediately clear if the suspect was armed.
