Published on Monday, August 25, 2008
By JESSICA LOGAN
An off-duty Los Angeles police officer fatally shot a man in the parking lot of a convenience store near Corona after a collision on Interstate 15, according to Riverside County sheriff's Investigator Jerry Franchville.
The unidentified man was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The man, who was driving a Toyota Tundra, sideswiped the officer, who was driving an H2 Hummer, Franchville said. A 1-year-old child was in the officer's car, Franchville said, but he declined to identify the child.
The officer chased the man at speeds of up 100 mph on northbound I-15 until the truck exited at Weirick Road and stopped in the parking lot of a convenience store in the 20400 south Temescal Canyon Road, Franchville said.
Franchville said no weapon was found other than the officer's gun. The officer and a passenger in the Tundra were detained, he said. Police declined to identify the officer, the dead man or the truck passenger
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