Suspect shot and killed by police on Live TV

November 28th, 1999.

SAN DIEGO, California (CA) - A police chase began with a routine traffic stop for an expired car tag. It ended three hours later after a terrifying 200-mile freeway chase through Southern California that was broadcast live on TV.

The unidentified motorist, who led police on at least four different freeways before finally confronting officers, was shot and killed by authorities Friday.

San Diego Police Lt. Glen Breitenstein said three highway patrol officers and three San Diego officers had fired shots. An autopsy was planned for Saturday.

The chase began about 6:45 a.m. in San Bernardino County when a sheriff's deputy tried to stop the man in Rancho Cucamonga for expired registration tags, said sheriff's spokesman Chip Patterson.

The man sped off in his white 1979 Datsun 280Z toward Interstate 10 and the deputy called highway patrol officers, which along with various police departments then chased the man through San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, reaching speeds up to 90 miles per hour.

Television news helicopters quickly picked up the chase and broke into other programming to carry it live.

At one point, cameras showed the man smoking a cigarette, checking his pager and scribbling a note, which he tossed from the window.

Once he entered San Diego County and appeared headed for the U.S.-Mexico border, police deployed a spike strip on Interstate 805 near state Route 94, puncturing his left front tire.

When the man's car rolled to a stop, he displayed a handgun outside the window. He then got out and started walking onto the freeway.

There was some discussion with the officers, who had stopped freeway traffic and were out of their cars with their weapons drawn.

"One of the sergeants yelled, 'He's got a gun!' " California Highway Patrol spokesman Phil Konstantine said. "Then shots were fired."

Television cameras in San Diego used a wide-angle shot to show the shooting at a distance.

At least one Los Angeles television station, Fox affiliate KTTV, showed a startling close-up of the man being shot, then pulled back to film him on the ground.

"Any time you have live, breaking news, you should err on the side of prudence," said Jim Sanders, news director at San Diego's KNSD-TV, an NBC affiliate. "You do what you can to tell the story without being gratuitously graphic."

Sanders said carrying such chases live is of news value because they often shut down traffic on major freeways.

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[ViveLaSekta]

what an idiot its not grand theft auto you dont get another life

[moecat1000]

good shooting

[kevinn510]

YOLO!

[BanditsGhost93]

Aww crap its 1999! So is the Nissan Datsun still up for sale? Im pretty sure there was no bullets that hit the car lol

[pigjubby1]

Why are these reporters so shocked? Haven't they lived a life and experienced hardship to understand what criminal s do? Oh, wait, they haven't. Journalism school is not as tough as life is it?

[SPACEMONKEY288]

@ViveLaSekta he ant an idot 4 pullin outta gun i woulda done tha same i would rather go out blastin than spend tha rest of my days gettin but fucked ina cell

[tupac41584]

C.J , HURRY UP PRESS R1 R2 R1 R2 L1 L2 L1 L2 ....... OH SORRY YOU ARE DEAD FOR REAL .

[charkee167]

he should have looked up some cheat codes

[pooh974]

damn man feel bad for this guy lol naw not really shouldve put the gun down

[PAYASA91342]

shoot police

[iamfckingred]

Or nuckchorris whatever ur gay name is

[iamfckingred]

@OriginalNorrissChuck ur a fcking idiot dont try to talk about shit u have no idea about.