CHP officers late Sunday night shot a Sacramento man they say burglarized a business and tried to run them down with his car.
Two California Highway Patrol officers were patrolling the area of El Camino Avenue and Maryal Drive at 10:40 p.m. Sunday when they saw a gold BMW in a parking lot with the no one inside, the engine running and the driver's side door open, CHP Officer Lizz Dutton stated in a news release.
The officers were parking their car facing the BMW when a man with a flat-screen television jumped from the window of Mr. Haney's Gameday BBQ, she said.
The officers left their patrol car, drew their guns and gave the man orders, which he ignored, Dutton said.
The man got in his car and put his hands up momentarily before suddenly accelerating his vehicle toward the officers, she said.
"Fearing for their lives," the officers fired their weapons at the man, Dutton said.
He drove out of the parking lot and into an alley behind some businesses, crossed over Avalon Drive, ditched the car and ran away, she said.
A perimeter was set up and Sacramento County sheriff's deputies were called to help search for the man.
A sheriff's canine unit found the man an hour later in the backyard of a home on Verna Drive, Dutton said. Trevor Hunnewell, 24, had been shot in the leg. He was taken to Mercy San Juan Medical Center for treatment.
He will be arrested when he is released from the hospital.
None of the officers involved were injured.
Call The Bee's Niesha Lofing, (916) 321-1270.
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