A traffic stop in Lilburn on Sunday turned into a police chase through parts of Cobb County that ended with several damaged cars and a man facing multiple charges.
The chase began after a family went to Lilburn police to report they were being followed by a man driving a truck.
The family called 911 on the way to the police station.
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When they arrived at the police station, an officer came out to talk to them.
Then they saw the white truck and the officer chased him.
“As they were talking to the officer, they said, ‘Oh, that’s it right there.’ There goes the truck,” Capt. Scott Bennett of the Lilburn Police Department told Channel 2’s Veronica Griffin.
Police dashcam video shows the driver of the Dodge Ram truck crashing into several vehicles, including a Lilburn police patrol car.
“He crashed into two or three motorists on Pleasant Hill Road and I-85,” Bennett said.
Bennett said officers tried to apprehend him during the low-speed chase, which eventually turned into a high-speed chase.
At one point, an officer tried to stop the driver in a Walmart parking lot on Lawrenceville Highway.
“One of our officers tried to drive in front of him to slow him down as they left the Walmart parking lot on Lester Road, and he shot at it, crashing into the officer’s car. And from then on it became a straight chase,” said Bennett.
Shortly afterwards, another officer attempted a PIT maneuver to stop the truck, but again the driver was able to get away after damaging several vehicles in his path.
“Gwinnett County (Police) later picked up the vehicle and were able to track it to an address in Norcross and located the suspect about a mile away, matching the description with the keys in his pocket, sitting in a grocery store parking lot. ,” said Bennett.
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Salvador Torres Mandujano of Nicholls, Georgia, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, aggravated assault on a police officer and several hit and run charges.
No one was seriously injured during the chase.
Police are still investigating why Mandujano may have followed the family.
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