3 suspects on the loose, 1 in custody after Manhattan police chase

Thursday, August 13, 2020
LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Three suspects are still on the run Thursday night after police tried to pull over a vehicle that took off in Manhattan.

Police say they attempted to pull over a vehicle at Madison Avenue and 50th Street shortly after 5 p.m.
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They say the vehicle fled and struck a motorcycle and its two passengers on Second Avenue and East 47th Street.

Those passengers were taken to Bellevue Hospital but are not likely to die.

Not far away, police recovered a gun that the men in the vehicle had thrown.

According to officials, the vehicle continued to travel southbound and struck a parked vehicle.



It eventually stopped on East 44th Street between First and Second Avenue.
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That's where four suspects hopped out of the car and fled.

Police were able to take one man into custody.

They are still looking for the other three suspects.

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