San Diego Union-Tribune

SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER CHASE

- LOS ANGELES

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.

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