White Bentley Police Chase Feburary 9 2009 to Feburary 10 2009

An hours-long chase and standoff between Los Angeles police and an assault suspect driving a white Bentley has ended with the suspect being removed from the scene early Tuesday in an ambulance.

Bentley Leads Police On 5-Hour Chase Police Tuesday identified the man who led them on a chase for more than five hours -- in a luxury $125,000 Bentley -- before turning a gun on himself.

The man, wanted for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend with a deadly weapon, was identified as 27-year-old Mustafa Mustafa.

After the chade, the suspect sat in his car and kept police at bay in North Hollywood. He allegedly threatened to harm them, or himself, several times.

Surrounded by armed SWAT officers, Mustafa shot himself in the head.

He died hours later, according to Norma Eisenman, of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Department.

Mustafa died early Tuesday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Sgt. Ernest Fisher said.

The low-speed pursuit covered several Southern California freeways Monday night before the man came to a stop on a street near Universal Studios very close to where the chase began.

About 90 minutes later, television news video showed three large armored vehicles surround the car and SWAT team members approach it with guns drawn. They broke the white sedan's passenger window and opened the door, but the man had already shot himself.

"He was distraught over financial stuff," Lt. Greg Doyle told a local news station.

The chase began shortly before 8 p.m. Monday night, Los Angeles police Officer Karen Smith said.

Driving less than 40 mph, Mustafa began leading officers southbound on U.S. 101 through Hollywood, and kept heading south on different freeways nearly to the coast, then headed back north before stopping on Lankershim Boulevard near a well-lit Toyota dealership. An unidentified dark-haired woman approached the car and appeared to attempt to talk to someone in the Bentley.

As police waved her away, the trunk popped open, and police cars quickly lined up behind it; officers then trained their weapons on the car from behind the open doors of more than a dozen squad cars.

News helicopters hovered over the scene, and authorities kept back a crowd of photographers and gawkers.

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[macromi]

I was switching channels back and forth between kttv, abc, upn nbc and ktla.. i still remember when susan hirasuna from fox said something like 'There's a van in front of ours and the person's driving awfully dangerous, we don't know if it's a Paparazzi or another news van' suggesting that the guy in the white Bentley was dj khalid or chris brown. think about it..

[joshwinz]

Yeah, I thought it was Chris Brown.

[rawdog001]

It always drives me crazy to hear white reporters thinking they are being "politically correct" by using the term "African American" when she had no idea what his citizenship status was, further more I have heard this term used for black people who were citizens of other countries, and then if they catch themselves they start jabbering and stuttering to think of the right term to use. Yet they don't use the term Euro-American for whites.

[joshwinz]

You know what, you are right man!! That is so true!!

[theghossty]

its not dj khalid u dumb mofos..

[joshwinz]

Its Mustafa Mustafa. That was the name of the driver.

[tapeworm489]

oh my god. why do people always say african american. fuckin thats racist. theres whit african americans. egypt white. madgascare white not nesecarily white white but still white. fuckin just say black you assholes. most of the black guys i know dont like being called african american cuz they didnt come from africa.

[Acecool]

An automatic pistol?

You can tell that just by looking at it? Really?

[ckyrandomhero69]

I remember watchin this! Only in L.A is there a pursuit in a bentley!.. I remember people were saying it was Chris Brown after the whole rianah lol

[sunyissunflower]

idiots its not even a bentley....its a mercedes

[ROCKSOLID19]

@tapeworm489 Saying African-American is better than saying "Black". President Lincoln referred them as Afro-American because he saw them as Americans.

[mitesh362]

They didn't show the bently good and 5 hour chase the fuck asshole mustafa did

[zakipad]

Who the FUCK would name there kid "mustafa mustafa "!?

[XxchrissyjxX]

looks like diddy ?

[LostFREEDOM]

nigga plzzzz

[AllTheSame711]

@NebunLaCap funny thing is 78% of NFl athletes go broke, but yea he killed himself for money issues i did a follow up on the internet and he was an Arabian man that was losing his fortune.

[NebunLaCap]

@JLSsux thats dumb

[NebunLaCap]

@AllTheSame711 haha money issues and drives a bently