A stolen dog was reunited with his owner after a wild 40-mile police chase with two suspects, which ended in a police-involved shootout after they crashed into a 7-Eleven.
Deputies with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department in Colorado began a pursuit of a possible stolen vehicle that was driving recklessly and refused to stop around 5 a.m. Wednesday morning.
During the chase, the suspects opened fire on police and deliberately sideswiped two other vehicles, according to the sheriff’s office.
The officers successfully placed spikes in the road and the driver deliberately crashed the car into a 7-Eleven. An employee and a customer inside the store were uninjured, police said.
As officers approached the vehicle, the driver, identified as Kyle Williamson, 32, pointed a gun at officers and refused to follow commands, prompting them to open fire and hit him several times.
Major was found wandering along some train tracks after the accident.FOX 31 Carly Rima and her sister-in-law took the dog to a local poll and reunited him with his owner.FOX 31
He was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. A passenger, Hannah Woolard, 37, was uninjured and was also taken into custody.
After the accident, Kaddie Rima and her sister-in-law Carly Rima were in the area and noticed a dog, named Major, sitting behind the store near some train tracks, KDVR reported.
They were able to convince the dog to get into their car and took him to a local vet, who scanned his chip and took him back to his owner in Thornton, where the police chase began.
“For the sake of his owner, she would not have imagined that she would get her son back like this,” Carly Rima told the outlet.
The driver was shot by police officers after they approached his vehicle and pulled out a gun. FOX 31 Major had been missing since March when his owner says the suspect stole him. FOX 31
“Had an accident. He was in a shooting,” she said.
Major had been missing since March.
“This sweet French Mastiff mix was stolen in March by the same person she entrusted to take care of him while she was out of town,” Rima wrote on the GoFundMe page, raising money for the dog’s rehome costs.
“He locked her phone, walked away and she never saw Major again. “She has been hoping and praying for him to get to a vet, where they would see that the dog was listed as stolen on the microchip,” she said, adding that his owner had bottle-fed him since he was a puppy.
Rima said in the post that the suspect identified by police was the man who Major’s owner said stole the dog.
The Sheriff’s Office told KDVR they could not comment on any possible connection to the dog as of Monday.
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