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3rd SUSPECT SOUGHT – 042313 18:45 S.S.

A  3RD SUSPECT  IS  BEING  SOUGHT  IN  CONNECTION  WITH  THIS  MORNING’S  SHOOTING   AT  A SALINAS  POLICE  OFFICER.     THE  INCIDENT   OCCURRED  DURING  A   HIGH-SPEED  CHASE  ON  LOCAL  ROADS  IN  SALINAS.   THE  CHASE  ENDED  WHEN  THE  SUSPECT-VEHICLE  HIT  A  TREE  NEAR  NATIVIDAD  CREEK  PARK,   AND  THE  DRIVER  AND  2  PASSENGERS  FLED  INTO  THE  HEAVILY  WOODED  PARK.   THE  25 YEAR-OLD  DRIVER,  WHO  IS  A  KNOWN  GANG  MEMBER,  AND  HIS  27  YEAR-OLD  PASSENGER  (ANOTHER  KNOWN  GANG  MEMBER)   WERE  ARRESTED, BUT  THE 3RD SUSPECT  MANAGED  TO  ELUDE  CAPTURE  THIS  MORNING.

BECAUSE  VIRGINIA  ROCCA  BARTON  ELEMENTARY  SCHOOL IS  NEAR  THE  PARK,   SALINAS POLICE  OFFICERS  DIVERTED  THE  CHILDREN WHO  WERE  ARRIVING  EARLY  FOR  SCHOOL  TO  A  “SAFE ZONE”  UNTIL  THE  SCHOOL  WAS  ACTUALLY  READY  TO  OPEN.

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