A person who was being hunted by North Carolina cops this weekend stole a TV information automotive then crashed head-on right into a police cruiser, a report stated.
Marcus Brown, 19, was one in every of 4 males on the run from cops in rural Pittsboro on Saturday when he approached a reporter and photographer from WRAL — and provided a wad of money for a experience to a fuel station, the TV station reported.
“We stated that these had been each information items and he couldn’t experience with us as a result of he didn’t have a station ID, that was actually an excuse to hope that he would get away from us,” reporter Keenan Willard stated in a broadcasted phase.
“He appeared to agree, he began strolling away,” Willard went on. “And he simply lunged into my automotive, jumped within the entrance seat and peeled out of there up [Highway] 64, simply took off. We had been each in shock.”
However a close-by cop gave chase and Brown discovered himself in his second automotive chase of the day. This one solely lasted 5 minutes earlier than he slammed the information automotive head first right into a police automotive, WRAL acknowledged.
The TV station was within the neighborhood reporting on the manhunt for Brown and the others, who ditched a automotive after a high-speed chase earlier that day. The 4 are all from Jacksonville, Florida, and had been stated to be doing 94 mph on a freeway with a posted pace restrict of 65 mph when a cop tried to drag them over.
The 4 males ran from the car after a chase, inflicting a lockdown of the world and sparking a big police presence within the area. All had been arrested Saturday and Sunday, WRAL stated.
Brown was charged with stealing the automotive, fleeing, and possession of a weapon of mass destruction, the TV station stated. Adrian Lowery, 24, and Caleb Sheffield, 19, had been additionally arrested over the weekend in addition to an unidentified minor, the report acknowledged.
