we continue to follow major breaking
news sky ford video shows a wrecked
silver minivan in East Arlington while
following a robbery and shooting and
kidnapping and shakes that seriously
injured a police officer this is near
the intersection of Atlantic Boulevard
and st. John block just minutes ago a
viewer sent us this video of the chase
suspect minivans speeding down Atlanta
Boulevard right before it crashed into a
power pole and this is a look at another
scene about eight miles east in Mayport
where the officer was hit by a vehicle
and taken to Memorial Hospital Jaso says
the officer was outside of his vehicle
when he was struck we're still waiting
for an update from police at the
Atlantic Boulevard scene but police have
not released a time and when they're
gonna do that just yet but there are
three scenes and police say it began
with a robbery at the Lucky Charms
arcade that's an internet cafe on
Mayport Road then an officer as we told
you was hit a short distance away on a
one a near one durwood Road where there
was a chase before the minivan crashed
near st. John's bluff Jaso is asking
people to avoid that portion of Atlantic
Boulevard which remains closed and this
is a live look at our safe touch
security traffic map showing the
congestion there's also a power outage
in the area around the crash scene now
affecting nearly two thousand homes and
businesses
we have several crews covering three
scenes tonight we begin with corley peel
near st. John's bluff Corley that's
right hundreds of people are without
power after that crash happened here
this afternoon you can see down this
road that JEA trucks are here crews are
working to restore that power after
witnesses say they saw that silver car
crashed into the pole this afternoon
witnesses tell me they saw officers you
stopped sticks to try to stop the
suspect once the SUV crashed into the
pole they say a small grass fire started
but was quickly put out I spoke with one
man who says he was at the store in the
area when the crash happened he says he
saw two people pulled out of the car
after the crash did you see the suspect
absolutely yes and did you see a small
fire at all small fire and everything
they was taking the body out they had to
came and took the first one out and came
back 15 minutes later take the second
one out
st. John's Bluff anna-lena Boulevard are
still blocked off right now so if you're
in the area you're going to have to take
a detour we will be hearing from Jaso at
this location for a briefing later but
from now I'm going to send it to my
colleague Eric Avenue a who is in
Mayport where the officer was injured
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yes Coralie Jaso investigators are
confirming that here at the corner of a
Mayport road and wonder wood is where
that officer was injured while trying to
lay down spike strips if we can swing
the camera to the left there a little
bit you'll see that is one of the spike
strip is still on the ground there it's
been there since we've gotten here just
to the left of that in your view you'll
see that what we believe to be is the
officers vehicle just moments ago they
finally turned the lights off on that
the trunk is still open and just behind
that vehicle you will see a part of the
officers clothing two combat boots and
what appears to be his shirt at first we
thought that that was a ballistic vest
but now we are confirming that it
appears more to be like a shirt that is
there now I did speak to a witness who
tells me that when she came outside she
was in a nearby building so that she
came outside she saw that officer on the
ground and saw other officers basically
performing CPR but that's not all she
told me take a listen we heard the cop
yelling did anyone see anything but no
one saw anything until after it happened
like you said you were out here you just
see this man he's on the ground and
police are trying to administer CPR
right yeah and then shortly showed up
and then Mayport ambulance showed up and
made port police showed up of course
this is still a very active
investigation people investigators are
still trying to get a lot of evidence
and clues and things of that nature at
this location not sure how long they
will be out here but it appears they may
be out here for quite some time on that
note I'm going to toss it over to my
colleague Elizabeth Campbell who's at
another location thank you Eric and I am
actually in the neighborhood in Mayport
where I'm told the carjacking happened
by that suspect after the robbery and
this is not even half a mile from that
arcade and this is also a police scene
so a fourth scene involved in this it is
hard to see because it is dark now but
we've got a Jaso crime scene van we've
got a patrol car and I have seen at
least half a dozen detectives walking
throughout this neighborhood talking to
neighbors and I also spoke to a woman
who lives in a house behind where I am
so we can't exactly show it to you but
she says that that's us
ran through her driveway and yard this
afternoon that an officer asked if he
could search her backyard for a robbery
suspect that's when she says they both
saw the man running through her backyard
he jumped the fence and ran this
direction and neighbors tell us that
that suspect held the owner of the car
at gunpoint and also put that man in the
car with him and that that man was in
that car when it crashed just hours ago
take a listen to what this woman had to
say who saw the suspect running through
her backyard I was sitting in my house
and I saw these police cars drive up in
front of my house and so I came outside
well I saw someone run up my driveway I
came out to see what was going on and
one of the police officers walked in my
backyard differently and the suspect was
in my yard and he jumped up he ran and
jumped over my fence on this side and
went across the street and that was all
I saw
and again that woman and several other
neighbors say that that car owner was
carjacked at gunpoint we have not
confirmed that with police shut but
neighbors here say that they know that
man very well and that he is in serious
condition at the hospital I also talked
to a woman in this neighborhood who says
she works at that arcade just half a
mile away that she was fortunate she was
not at work today
a reporting live from a port elizabeth
campbell channel 4 the local station
Anna Muller here at Memorial Hospital we
have just learned that the Jaso officer
that was struck he was outside of the
vehicle at the time he is here at
Memorial Hospital and has been seriously
injured you can take a look right here
at the scene in front of the hospital
there's about eight or nine Jaso cars
here we've seen Jaso officers in and out
of the hospital since we arrived about
two hours ago
police say the officer was hit by the
suspect's vehicle during the pursuit
Jaso says the injured officers family
has been notified again the officer is
seriously injured here at Memorial
Hospital and we are working to learn
more about the officers condition and as
soon as we learn more we will keep you
updated for now reporting live from the
south side Brittany Muller Channel four
the local station back to you Kenton
Mary Thank You Brittany our coverage
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