THE CHASE
A drive ends in nightmare
Shortly before 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 3, King was driving fast down the Foothill Freeway near San Fernando, at the northern edge of Los Angeles. With him in his white 1988 Hyundai sedan were two friends, Bryant Allen and Freddie Helms.
King, a 25-year-old unemployed construction worker with two children, had been released in December after serving six months of a two-year sentence for second-degree robbery (brandishing a tire iron, he had taken cash from a grocer) and was still on parole.
In a California Highway Patrol car, a husband-and-wife team, T.J. and Melanie Singer, reported to their headquarters that the Hyundai approached them from behind at 110 or 115 mph, a Highway Patrol spokesman, Sgt. Mike Brey, said later.
Although a number of news reports have asserted that the small car cannot reach such speeds, Brey said that at the time of the report it would have been traveling downhill.
“There was no chase,” King told reporters the following Wednesday night, when he was released from jail without charges. “I may have been speeding just a little bit.”
An audio tape of police radio conversations, released Friday, picks up the chase after the Highway Patrol called in the Los Angeles police when King’s car exited the freeway. A police helicopter was also called in.
Then, the audio tape shows, he led his pursuers in a circle through a darkened neighborhood at about 55 mph in a 40-mph zone. “Vehicle stopped at red light but failed to yield to police,” a radio transmission from a pursuing car said. Based on the statements of Brey and a review of the audio tape, it appears that the pursuing officers that King had a criminal record. Read More
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