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Woman birthday shopping hit by car after police chase in Oakland
One woman is hospitalized after a police chase ends with an out-of-control car smashing into an Oakland store.
OAKLAND, Calif. - What appeared to be multiple people pinned between a car and a boutique were actually just mannequins.
"Honestly, it just happened so fast," a witness told KTVU, adding the situation appeared to start as a police chase involving Daly City police, ending across the bay at Fruitvale Avenue and Foothill Blvd in Oakland around one p.m. on Saturday.
"It’s a little crazy, you know. It's dangerous," Jennifer Escobar is a hairstylist who works next door to the crash site and was with a client when she heard the crash.
"Yeah, one lady she [was] screaming," Escobar said.
That screaming lady was hit by a gray Lexus right as she stepped out of the store that was hit, where she was shopping on her birthday, according to a store employee who did not want to be identified.
"They hit her, and she went up in the air, and she fell on the floor," said the shopkeeper.
The 22-year-old injured shopper was taken away by ambulance.
Witnesses saw a man who appeared to be in his twenties getting out of the car and running away while another was arrested.
"I just started, like, you know, freaking out a little bit," said the shopkeeper.
An officer could be seen holding a Star Chase GPS device.
Officers can shoot the device at a suspect’s car which the device sticks to.
This allows officers to track the suspect without getting into a dangerous high-speed chase.
"I mean it's Oakland, there’s always chaos, right?" the shopkeeper said.
A Daly City Police Department SUV with visible front-end damage was towed away from the scene.
Daly City police were not immediately available for comment.