A shocking video captures the last seconds of a police pursuit in Florida as the cops chased a stolen Maserati traveling at 123 mph before it crashed and overturned, killing one of the male adolescent passengers and making it doubtful that a second boy would live.
Keondrick Lang, a 15-year-old motorist, accelerated to 80 mph without turning on his headlights because he believed that officers would pursue him.
However, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office has a policy of pursuing suspects on public roads; as a result, they were instead followed by a department helicopter that monitored their movements from the air.
Deputies in the helicopter then saw as the driver lost control of the automobile, over a curb, hit a storefront sign, and overturned the expensive sports car on 62nd Avenue in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The 2016 sports automobile, which had been left unlocked in St. Petersburg early on Sunday morning, was not authorized to be driven by any of the teenagers.
Police stopped the stolen automobile about 3:20 a.m., sparking a pursuit. However, as soon as Lang slammed the gas, a sergeant instructed the deputies to ‘back off’ so that the helicopter could keep watch from above.
Lang was unable to manage the power and performance of the Maserati, which can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in just 2.9 seconds, while the pursuing police vehicles slowed to around 35 mph. Within seconds, Lang was in the triple digits.
The Maserati’s back end starts to fishtail just a few short blocks, sending the vehicle hurtling into a shop sign.
The parking lot is covered with metal, glass, and plastic fragments from the sign and the automobile where it came to rest on its top.
While Malachi Daniels, 16, and Lang, 15, were both brought to the hospital, Mario Bonilla, 15, who was travelling in the front passenger seat, passed away on impact. Lang’s injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, while Daniels is reportedly in serious condition.
A semiautomatic 25-caliber pistol was subsequently discovered in the automobile by police.
Sheriff Bob Gualtieri noted that none of the teenagers had any criminal records, but it was obvious that they were out and about committing a number of crimes; they had just evaded capture.
The chopper was sent to a nearby heist when the automobile pursuit was accidentally captured on camera.
The three teenagers who had snuck out of their parents’ houses were soon seen behaving strangely.
The keys were still in the ignition when Lang used a glove to open the unlocked automobile door. Within 90 seconds of the automobile being stolen, police might start to pursue.
We often discuss this, Gualtieri stated. People should lock their car doors and avoid leaving their keys in the vehicle, but they often fail to do so.
“And that’s what these youngsters are searching for when they are out in the middle of the night stealing and breaking into automobiles.”
The deputies in the air immediately alerted their ground colleagues, who immediately attempted to apprehend the youths before they could flee.
Ground troops followed the vehicle as Lang sped off while turning on their emergency lights.
Gualtieri described the drivers as “young youngsters,” “inexperienced,” and “driving 3.30 in the morning [at] 80 mph.”
According to him, the responding police officers provided the suspects with quick help, but Bonilla was declared dead at the site.
Gualtieri said at his press conference that Daniels, who was taken to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries, may not make it.
The three teenagers were detained by deputies in Kenneth City on September 11 when they discovered them to be strolling through a residential area early in the morning. Later, authorities learned this information.
The adolescents were sent back home at that time, according to FOX 13, after the parents of the kids were contacted.
During the press conference, Gualtieri said, “These youngsters were on that horrible road.”
The parents, he said, were upset about the collision and said they had assumed their kids were still in bed at the time.
One of the children shared a room with a younger sibling, and the younger sibling, according to what I gather from the deputies’ conversations with the parents this morning, was unaware that the older child had departed, Gualtieri said.
He noticed that the parents had been working to change their kids’ habits; one had even just moved their son to a neighboring school to give him a new start.
“You’ve got to feel bad for these parents because they understand the difficulties you face raising 15, 16, and older children.” The child slips away while they are attempting to address it and be aware of it.
“Bad things are bound to happen sometimes.”
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