Officer fires shot at
escaping assailants
CAY HILL--An officer on patrol fired a warning shot at four young men in Cay Hill on Monday as they tried to escape arrest for allegedly assaulting a teenager a few minutes earlier, the police reported.
Police had chased the young suspects from Cake House Bakery/Supermarket on L.B. Scott Road to the junction of A.J.C. Brouwer and Welgelegen Roads after they were spotted beating a teenage boy outside the bakery. The suspects sped away from the scene in a French-licensed car when police arrived to take them into custody, police said.
The young men, each armed with a baseball bat, tried twice to exit the Toyota Yaris they were driving to evade capture while it was still in motion, crashing the vehicle into a parked car outside Teke Teke Bar & Grill II on their second attempt, Police spokesman Chief Inspector Johan “Janchi” Leonard told The Daily Herald.
Leonard said the escaping attackers had been trying to avoid early afternoon traffic in Cay Hill when they jumped out of the moving car with their bats in hand before trying to run away. The officer, who Leonard said was alone at the time, fired a shot in the air to scare the youngsters into surrender. Instead, the young men ran away down Welgelegen Road still gripping their weapons.
The vehicle with plates 85ZBE971 was towed from the scene and taken to the police impound yard.
