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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A antheral successful Tulare County is present facing a beingness condemnation aft a life-or-death shootout with instrumentality enforcement.
Back successful 2021, 36-year-old Marvin Chang was seen approaching a person's car with a handgun astatine a state station. That idiosyncratic drove disconnected and alerted authorities, which sparked a chaotic chase.
Armed Cal Fire officers had been altered astir the suspect. They spotted him successful the country of Horse Creek Bride and joined the pursuit.
"When they tried to behaviour that postulation stop, Mr. Chang past stopped his vehicle, turned around, pointed his firearm and instantly started shooting rounds astatine some of the Cal Fire officers," Tulare County Assistant District Attorney Jessica Weatherly said.
The Cal Fire officers were not deed by gunfire. On Highway 198 adjacent Lemon Cove, Tulare County Sheriff's deputies joined the convulsive chase. Chang spotted the deputy's conveyance and opened fire. He besides threw items astatine them retired of his vehicle, including a ample flashlight. CHP past spotted Chang and took the pb successful the pursuit.
Tulare County Sheriff's deputies tried to acceptable up a spike strip, and adjacent though Chang avoided it, the tyre of his conveyance blew retired causing it to halt successful an orangish grove. Chang past fled connected ft and 2 CHP officers went aft him. As 1 of the officers approached, Chang opened occurrence – hitting her successful the shoulder. She was wounded, and Chang tried to proceed shooting her, but his weapon jammed. He past pistol-whipped the CHP serviceman portion she was connected the ground.
Tulare County Sheriff's deputies heard the gunfire and stepped successful to prevention her life.
"That is erstwhile TCSO deputies proceeding the gunfire speech that is happening successful the tract comes backmost to that area. And luckily they besides intervened," Weatherly said.
Chang fled done the trees – but was arrested aft different circular of gunfire. He was taken into custody, and it was aboriginal determined that the weapon helium was utilizing had an amerciable extended magazine. The was besides an AR-15 firearm wrong the car with a 1000 rounds of ammunition. He besides had hallucinogenic mushrooms successful the car. Chang has since been linked to the anti authorities radical Antifa.
"Just the axenic horrendous quality of it, the dangerousness that benignant of comes into play. When Mr. Chang's conveyance was searched, helium had implicit 1000 rounds of ammunition alone," Weatherly said.
