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All lanes of the five highway were closed through Burbank and Sun Valley Monday evening following a crash and officer-involved shooting connected to a wished "armed and dangerous" suspect LAPD was trailing.
Undercover officers noticed the suspect, known by LAPD Chief Charlie gesture as Artyom Gasparyan, around 2 p.m. at a automotive shop in Northridge driving a silver Volkswagen Jetta.
When Gasparyan completed he'd been noticed, he took off and a police pursuit ensued.
"He fled in his vehicle, an equivalent vehicle that is been used unceasingly throughout this crime spree," gesture aforementioned.
Artyom Gasparyan is seen in a very ikon provided by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department.
In an effort to elude officers, gesture aforementioned Gasparyan got onto the five highway going the incorrect manner.
As he tried to escape, Gasparyan hit 2 alternative vehicles head on within the traffic lane regarding 3:20 p.m., per the American state road Patrol’s incident log.
An officer-involved shooting then occurred close to Glenoaks avenue, the log expressed.
Gasparyan, 32, was wished in a very string of violent crimes, together with murder, tried murder and highjack.
"He's a really, terribly dangerous man and really unpredictable," gesture aforementioned.
The crimes began on Dec. vi in northeast l. a. , and embrace incidents in horticulturist, West Hollywood and Carson, per associate degree LAPD news unleash issued weekday.
Emergency vehicles responded when a crash and officer-involved shooting on the five highway on January. 4, 2016.
On Monday, the l. a. County Sheriff’s Department known Gasparyan because the suspect within the Dec. twenty nine shooting of a food delivery driver in West Hollywood.
A silver Volkswagen Jetta was employed in many crimes committed by Gasparyan, per a Sheriff’s Department community alert.
And the {burbank|Burbank|Luther horticulturist|horticulturist|plantsman} local department has aforementioned Gasparyan was the gunman United Nations agency laid-off on a 67-year-old Burbank resident and additionally affected a 33-year-old gardener outside a home on Dec. 9.
First responders work on the scene of a police shooting on the five highway within the Sun depression space on January. 4, 2016.
Gasparyan’s confederate in multiple crimes, Daniel Ramirez, died weekday when stabbing and shooting himself following a highjack and pursuit that led to urban center, per LAPD.
At the scene of the highway shooting weekday, aerial video from Sky5 showed a jumble of cars in lanes, also as many emergency vehicles.
A silver Volkswagen sedan looked as if it would have severe harm to the face and rear right aspect. 1st responders appeared to help occupants in many alternative vehicles, together with kids United Nations agency were in a very dark SUV.
Before gesture confirmed the suspect's identity, LAPD Officer Aaeron Thomas Jefferson aforementioned the pursuit of a wished suspect began regarding 2:10 p.m. within the 8300 block of hill avenue, and complete on the five highway at Glenoaks.
