Armed Suspect Holds Hostage Following Beverly Hills Police Chase

Mon, 04 May 2026 09:30:00 +0200

On Sunday evening, a police pursuit in Beverly Hills escalated into a prolonged standoff after a suspect, wanted for allegedly attempting to murder a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy, fled in a pickup truck and crashed into another vehicle. The incident began early Sunday morning in Lennox, near Inglewood, when law enforcement tried to stop the suspect at the intersection of Hawthorne Boulevard and West 104th Street. During the stop, a struggle occurred, and the suspect struck a deputy with his vehicle, though the deputy was not seriously injured. Later in the afternoon, Beverly Hills police located the suspect’s gray Ford pickup via an automated license plate recognition alert and attempted a traffic stop, which led to the chase ending in a collision at the busy intersection of Robertson Boulevard and Burton Way, near the Beverly Center and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. As of 9 p.m., the suspect was holding a hostage inside the vehicle, prompting a Los Angeles County SWAT team to en