By Paul Quinlan
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — The sound of gunshots fired from a car in West Palm Beach led police on a brief car chase to Riviera Beach, where the two passengers were caught after they crashed into a truck and grocery store, police said. One of the men suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash.
Nobody was hit by the shots, which were fired in the area of 39th Street and Broadway, about two miles away from where the car chase ended at Old Dixie Highway and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard about 2 p.m., police said.
One of the men was trapped inside the wrecked car and is not expected to survive, said Chase Scott, spokesman for the West Palm Beach Police Department.
The truck driver was also injured. Neither his condition nor the names or ages of the people involved were immediately available.
Police arrested the second man in the fleeing car after he jumped out of the vehicle and ran off. They caught him around the corner in the 600 block of West 9th St.
“He ran off on foot, and left his buddy trapped and dying in the car,” Scott said.
Police continue to work the accident scene, where rescuers are trying to remove the injured suspect from the crumpled car.
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