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Police charged 17-year-old in carjacking that led to police pursuit
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A 17-year-old boy is accused of carjacking a vehicle and leading officers on a chase that ended with a crash that injured a bystander Monday in Southeast sa国际传媒官网网页入口.
Dominic Sena is charged with robbery with a deadly weapon, aggravated fleeing an officer and unlawful possession of a handgun in the incident.
Sena鈥檚 attorney could not be reached Tuesday.
Gilbert Gallegos, an sa国际传媒官网网页入口 Police Department spokesman, said during the chase, an unsuccessful pursuit intervention technique, or PIT maneuver 鈥� striking a vehicle to try to stop it 鈥� resulted in an officer crashing into a light pole and fence.
Gallegos said a man who was behind the fence was struck 鈥減ossibly by the fence or debris from the (officer鈥檚) vehicle鈥� and was hospitalized with a broken jaw and ribs.
鈥淗e is expected to make a full recovery,鈥� Gallegos said.
According to a statement of probable cause filed in 2nd Judicial District Children鈥檚 Court:
Police responded around 1:50 p.m. to reports of a carjacking in the 8100 block of San Joaquin SE, near Pennsylvania and Southern. Two women told police a young man tried to steal their vehicle at gunpoint, telling them, 鈥淕ive me your whip.鈥�
Police said the suspect 鈥� later identified as Sena 鈥� was not able to operate the woman鈥檚 vehicle and stole a different woman鈥檚 vehicle at gunpoint. Officers found the stolen vehicle a few blocks away 鈥渕inutes after the carjacking occurred.鈥�
Officers tried to pull over the vehicle, but Sena sped off, 鈥渄riving recklessly,鈥� and Gallegos said a sergeant authorized a pursuit. He said the sergeant then authorized a PIT maneuver, which sent an officer鈥檚 vehicle onto the sidewalk and through a fence.
鈥淎 transient male who was behind the fence was struck, possibly by the fence or debris from the vehicle going through the fence,鈥� Gallegos said.
But Sena was able to keep driving the stolen vehicle, according to police, until another officer did a PIT maneuver on San Mateo, just south of Indian School. Sena was arrested, and a gun magazine was found in his pocket and a handgun in the vehicle he stole.
Sena told police he had been drinking and did not remember 鈥渕uch of what happened.鈥� Sena told police he stole a Kia 鈥渨ith a screwdriver鈥� hours earlier and refused to talk about the gun.
