UPDATE 12/21/16, 10:00pm:
UPDATE 12/21/16:
Here is our continuing coverage of the chase.
MENDOCINO Co., 12/20/16 —
UPDATE 11:00: Here’s a video of the chase passing by The Old West Inn, courtesy of Roshan Patel: click the link here and skip to 2:10 to see the chase.
UPDATE 8:16pm:
The suspect is being transported to Howard Hospital in Willits. Police are searching for the suspect’s firearm which he appears to have tossed when he bailed and began to flee on foot.
No law enforcement or bystanders have been reported injured.
UPDATE 8:14pm:
Scanner traffic indicates that the suspect is in custody. The final moments of the chase seem to have happened in the creek south of Safeway.
Scanner traffic also indicates that though the suspect fire his gun out of his car window, no law enforcement shots were fired. Law enforcement believes that no vehicles were struck by the rounds.
Lt. Shannon Barney of the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, explained that the chase began with a routine DUI traffic stop, in the city of Ukiah, and that the suspect took off from there. The California Highway Patrol then took over the chase, the chase wound up in Willits. Multiple agencies responded.
The suspect eventually seems to have bailed and run down into the creek in back of the Willits Safeway, where he was apprehended.
ORIGINAL:
A high speed chase that began in Ukiah appears to be enter its final stage in Willits. A shot was fired, according to the scanner the suspect fired a handgun out the window of his car. As of 8:05pm this situation is active, be careful out there, stay away from the scene, and let law enforcement do their job.
From scanner traffic is seems that the subject might now be on foot, police are repeatedly asking for a clothing description. K9 units have been requested.
The Ukiah PD began the chase near Talmadge Rd. in Ukiah, and then pursue at extreme speeds of over 110 miles per hour. The California Highway Patrol took over, and it seems that Willits PD is also involved.
Apparently a request was put in for the Sonoma County Sheriff’s helicopter (CalFire does fly at night). It is unclear if that copter was the one heard earlier tonight.
More information to come.
So does that mean we should ban alcohol in this county ? That’s the way we treat marijuana but not alcohol why ?
good idea..ban them both.. because whats about to take place is going to be a nightmare..I dont think anyone is taking into consideration that whatever legal limit is to be considered for pot it will still not find point in the fact that the smallest amount of both pot and alcohol in combination can leave a person severely intoxicated….amd due to the most annoying popup that is headed “MORE STORIES” I am unable to finish my point..i “x” it out and as soon as i attempt to type it blocks my entire screen..REAL CLASSY..(but coming from a source that supported Gary Bruchelor when he murdered his son with an axe while he slept in the family den nothing really seems out of character no matter the disfunction.. thats Mendo…a fireman murders his 30 year old kid with an axe and serves only a year..a 28 year old kid runs into the forest away from the cops with a rifle and the cops shoot him in the butt and give him a 9 year prison sentence..yeeehaaaawww
if my previous comment implied that the mendo voice supported the murderer i mentioned it was not my intended implication… i was of course referring to the mendocino county law enforcement and courts system..the annoying popup seems to belong to the mendo voice and it is this popup that is the reason i could not properly edit my post.. it fille the scren unremorsefully!
Didn’t realize that pop up was doing that. It filled your whole screen? Sorry, we’ll have to fix it.