A maniac who believed he was playing a real-life version of “Grand Theft Auto” led San Francisco police officers on a wild car chase in which he detonated a pipe bomb and ignited a Molotov cocktail, a city official said.
The crazed man began his video game-inspired rampage at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul on Sunday, where he received communion before attacking a member of the congregation and was ejected from the place of worship, a pastor told local outlet KGO. .
After the assault on the church, police responded to the scene and saw the suspect walking away.
As police chased the suspect across the Bay Bridge, the unidentified man was seen throwing “suspicious devices” from the window of his car, police said.
A suspect led San Francisco police on a multi-county chase, during which he allegedly threw “suspicious devices” at officers. KTVU A bomb-hunting robot was used to access the trunk of the suspect’s wrecked car in Martinez, California. KTVU
The San Francisco Police Officers Association, the city’s largest police union, posted on X that officers in Sunday’s chase “encountered a suspect with an improvised device.”
City Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who was briefed on the incident, told the San Francisco Standard that the assault suspect detonated a pipe bomb in the 1500 block of Jones Street and detonated a Molotov cocktail on 8th Street.
The chase continued down the highway and was resumed by California Highway Patrol officers, who eventually cornered and arrested the suspect in the suburb of Martinez. At the time of his arrest, Peskin said the suspect asked “how many points he got in his Grand Theft Auto game.”
The incident began to unfold Sunday at St. Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco, where police said the suspect assaulted a parishioner after taking communion. KGO A San Francisco police union shared on X that the suspect was in possession of an “improvised device.” California Highway Patrol POA officers from San Francisco took over the freeway chase and cornered the fugitive in Martinez.KTVU
Peskin told the Standard: “In 23 years of doing this, this is probably the strangest thing.”
“Grand Theft Auto” is a best-selling video game franchise in which players can commit crimes and random acts of violence, including police chases, in a large open-world environment.
Officers deployed a bomb-hunting robot to search the trunk of the suspect’s wrecked silver sedan, as seen in video broadcast by KTVU. A CHP spokesperson told KGO that the driver did not throw anything from his car at officers, but they did find unspecified “objects” inside his car.
There were no reports of injuries or property damage as a result of the chase, police said.
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