SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER CHASE
An Anaheim man has been booked for attempted murder after police say he shot a man in the head, fled the scene in a U-Haul truck, then led multiple law enforcement agencies on a high-speed chase before a SWAT team finally took him into custody.
Garden Grove police received reports at about 2:45 a.m. Saturday that a man had been shot at a home in the 5300 block of Santa Barbara Avenue, authorities said. When officers arrived at the scene, they found a man in the back bedroom with a gunshot wound to his head.
Witnesses told police that they saw Ali Samoodi, 51, take off in a rented UHaul after the shooting. They said Samoodi was in a relationship with the man who was shot.
The victim, who remains unnamed, was rushed to a local hospital where he remains in critical condition, police said.
Detectives tracked the UHaul to Menifee, where Menifee police unsuccessfully attempted to pull the truck over. A high-speed pursuit ensued.
The suspect finally stopped in Bloomington in San Bernardino County, police said, and a SWAT team helped take him into custody.