Calumet City Police Chase Ends In Crash In Hammond
Five suspects are in custody after a crash and foot pursuit in Hammond near 165th & Calumet Sunday around 1pm. Calumet City Police were chasing a vehicle believed to be involved in a Vehicular CarJacking that occurred in Calumet City according to Chief Fletcher of the Calumet City Police. Calumet City Police Department Tactical Unit on patrol in the area of Sibley and Merrill, observed a black Ford Fusion with the back window shot out, according to Chief Fletcher of the Calumet City Police. Upon running a check of the displayed temporary registration on the vehicle through Calumet City Dispatch, the officers learned the Ford Fusion was taken in an aggravated vehicular carjacking the night before. Tactical officers followed behind the vehicle and requested assistance from other Calumet City PD units. The driver of the black Ford Fusion drove northbound on a southbound one way street attempting to evade the officers. The members of the Tactical Unit initiated pursuit of the vehicle. The chase brought police from Calumet City through Chicago before coming to a stop in Hammond after a multi vehicle accident with injuries. Witnesses reported suspects driving on sidewalks through Hegewisch and speeds near 80 mph as they blew through red lights nearly missing cars. One victim was transported to Community Hospital in Munster. The suspects crashed into multiple cars before taking off on foot through the alleys of the presidential streets. All five were apprehended by Hammond Police, Lt. Steve Kellogg told Region News. Four are juveniles (16 and 17-years old) and one is an adult. Two juveniles are from Hammond, one from East Chicago, and one from Chicago. The adult is from Hammond.
Although Hammond officers were not directly involved in the pursuit, they surrounded the area when the vehicle caused an accident in the intersection of 165TH and Calumet, according to Lt. Steve Kellogg of the Hammond Police. No one was injured in the accident, however, a 13-month old child was transported to an area hospital and later released, Kellogg stated.
We will have a full update on this through the day.
Great coverage and great work by the local PDs. Thank you all.
What did habitual carjacker Enoch I. McCottrell get out of Illinois River??? Harvey Cops would have done absolutely nothing.
Stuff like this wouldn’t happen if y’all would just be smart and call off cop chases and just follow few cars behind them safely without lights instead of causing a big scene and injuring other innocent people
Police react and act with what they have and what is available. Monday morning quarter backing is easy. Let’s give thanks the criminal was apprehended. Let’s congratulate the officers. Let’s not arm chair quarter back what should have happened.
1) stuff like this wouldn’t happen if their parents taught them the dangers of carjacking. 2) Cops have lots of calls and cannot follow for hours until the carjacker runs out of gas. 3) The carjackers caused the big scene NOT the police. Check the photos !!!!!
We saw this car before right before this Happened because we noticed the black car had no back windshield
What’s going on in Calumet City…… the last time I was in Illinois I was damn near ran off the road su to a car chase on 147th and Torrence….. it’s sad that this is common out there!
About Monday morning quarterbacking, by now, there’s no police department in Cook County that’s not aware that no justice will come out of this. I’d bet the farm, two cows and the tractor, that all of the juveniles involved were released to their guardians. So the question remains, when does law enforcement have a duty to discontinue a car pursuit because the risks and dangers of the pursuit far outweigh the offense committed. The offense committed is “believed to be a vehicular carjacking”. No injuries to the victim are reported. Driving on sidewalks and speeds of 80 miles per hour through intersections against red lights, any reasonable police officer should realize the risk is too high. Too many innocent pedestrians, motorists, and police officers have sustained great bodily harm, or death, due to vehicle pursuits such as this one. Additionally, the millions of dollars it costs municipalities in law suits when the aforementioned results in injuries and or deaths. Given what is known/reported, this pursuit should have been terminated early on. It wouldn’t surprise me if the outcome of all this was nothing more than traffic tickets to the driver of the fleeing vehicle, since the offense may not have been an actual carjacking.
This A$$hat should spend the rest of his life in a cage! He risked COUNTLESS lives! Crap like this is what happens when the liberals want to be soft on crime! Wake up people!
Dude you is ah bitch on my dead homie