During a high-speed chase of a robbery suspect, a woman has been hit and killed by the suspects driving recklessly on Friday night in San Francisco.
The suspects of an armed robbery had been seen driving in a black, four-door sedan which had been speeding across the city on California Street while heading east. On the way between Kearny and Montgomery streets, the vehicle had struck a female pedestrian.
There had been riders in a cable car who witnessed the car going above the ground at one point and the windshield had looked severely damaged. The pedestrian have been gravely injured and had died in the hospital later.
Police think that there were 3 men in the vehicle and they threw their guns from the vehicle during the high-speed chase. The police believe that this vehicle is connected to a number of robberies that has taken place over the last few days, in the city of San Francisco.
The police had been chasing the vehicle for a long time but lost it on the way somewhere near the Sterling Street on-ramp to the Bay Bridge.
The police had been trying to stop the car soon after they had been involved in committing yet another in a series of robberies a while before 10 p.m. in the Nob Hill neighborhood on Friday. Nevertheless, the car drove off at very high speed and struck the woman who was in the crosswalk and then a second hit at another pedestrian only a few blocks later. It then crashed into a parked car but was somehow able to escape the police in the South of Market neighborhood.
The car had been found abandoned on Treasure Island off the Bay Bridge. The second person who had been hit was taken to a hospital and fortunately did not suffer any life-threatening injuries. The police had been able to recover the 2 firearms which had been thrown out of the vehicle during the chase. According to the police, those individuals committed 3 robberies on Friday alone.