LEO tossed a Spike Strip into path of the car, and the crash occured soon after - witness near the gas station (yt vid).
If you’re looking around about this story-
it doesn’t matter much as high speed chase in broad daylight over sketchy roads for retail theft is asinine either way.
The store was robbed of $5000/merch on Feb 12th.
Initial reports said the car was acting suspiciously at the mall, cop maybe thought it was the same crew fr Feb 12th-went to pull it over and the car took off.
Reports now either explicitly say or intimate that the theft took place immediately prior to the chase. As it appears that the press conflated the two events.
Which is it? I looked around and found zero clarity.