Carjacking suspect plows into drivers during chase
Chase ends with several cars crashed after carjacking
A driver accused of knifing a car salesman and leading police on a chase through southwest Houston plowed into several other drivers as the chase ended, Local 2 Investigates reported Wednesday.
"They ain't got nothing on me," the man shouted as police led him in handcuffs to a waiting patrol car.
The man is facing several felony charges after police said he stabbed a car salesman and then sped away in a stolen SUV around 2 p.m. Wednesday along Dairy Ashford north of Bellaire Boulevard.
After stabbing the salesman, the victim's wife loaded him into a car and alerted a police officer who was working at Elsik High School in the Alief Independent School District, investigators said.
The officer working at the school told Local 2 Investigates she had her bleeding husband in the car, bound for the hospital, when she told the officer the man who did it was driving nearby in the white SUV.
The officer gave chase and the stolen car then plowed into several vehicles that were stopped for the traffic light at Synott and Bellaire Boulevard.
One of the drivers who was rammed, George Scott, said, "He was coming from behind and he hit me from behind. Boom! I don't know what was happening."
At least three other vehicles were heavily damaged as the chase plowed into them. Witnesses said it appeared the robber was trying to push two cars out of the way as they sat side by side at the traffic light.
"He was just flying down the street and boom, then he hit and that was it," said Scott.
The Alief ISD officer said the robber then jumped a fence and ran through a parking lot before officers drew their weapons and he surrendered as he was trying to jump a second fence nearby.
The arresting officer said the man kept repeating, "I didn't do it."
As he was led into a waiting patrol car in handcuffs, the man again shouted that police "don't have nothing on me." A Local 2 Investigates reporter asked if he was claiming he did not stab anyone. The arrested man answered, "No, They ain't got nothing. I wasn't anywhere around here."
Officers at the scene did not release the man's name.
Paramedics checked out several of the drivers who were rammed as the chase ended, but no one was seriously injured.
"We're very, very fortunate," said Susan Castro with Alief ISD, who pointed out that the chase started several blocks away from where Elsik students had just been dismissed. The officer who was guarding the south parking lot at the school is the one who jumped into his patrol car to chase after the accused robber.
Castro said, "The students, there was never any danger. Truly, the only association with our school district, period, was that we had an officer in the right place at the right time."
Tow trucks picked up the stolen car and two other damaged vehicles as police filled out paperwork.
Several people identified by police as relatives of the stabbed salesman declined to comment at the scene.
The salesman was taken to an area hospital with a knife wound to the back, but police said his injuries were not life-threatening.
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