Carjacking Suspect Evades Police In Wild Ongoing Chase From IE To Los Angeles

INLAND EMPIRE, CA — A carjacking suspect led police on a wild chase that started in the Inland Empire and continued into downtown Los Angeles Friday afternoon.

The chase began at the China Cook restaurant in Fontana when the suspect reportedly tried to steal a man's pickup truck, per NBC4 Los Angeles.

The truck's owner told the TV station he and the suspect wrestled in the cab of the pickup until the alleged carjacker accelerated the vehicle, throwing the owner of the pickup to the ground.

Fontana police, and later California Highway Patrol officers, chased the suspect west on the San Bernardino (10) Freeway, then the Hollywood (101) Freeway and then though streets of downtown Los Angeles, Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles.

The chase continued more than an hour after it began, with the suspect driving erratically and stopping at times and waving his arms out the vehicle's window before driving off again.

As of 1:45 p.m., the suspect was driving erratically on the wrong side of the road along Olympic Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles.

Continue following this developing story for updates.

City News Service contributed to this report.