Armed carjacker’s wild Corvette rampage turns downtown into war zone as sergeant wounded in deadly shootout

A convulsive equipped carjacking that began with stolen Corvettes and stretched crossed aggregate counties ended successful a deadly shootout Wednesday, wounding a seasoned San Jose constabulary sergeant and sidesplitting the suspect, authorities said.

San Jose constabulary said Thursday the sergeant is successful bully spirits and recovering successful the infirmary aft being changeable by a gunman during the multi-agency incident. He was taken to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, wherever helium remains successful captious but unchangeable information and is expected to recover.

During a quality league Thursday afternoon, San Jose Police Chief Paul Joseph identified the fishy arsenic 30-year-old Mohamed Husien, from Davis, California. Joseph said the suspect’s transgression spree began Jan. 17 successful Sacramento, wherever helium allegedly stole a reddish Corvette earlier traveling into the Bay Area and carrying retired a bid of robberies crossed aggregate jurisdictions.

Authorities accidental the unit escalated Wednesday aft the fishy carried retired different equipped carjacking astatine a San Jose car mall, stealing a greenish Corvette.

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San Jose constabulary vehicles and an armored conveyance artifact an intersection down constabulary portion pursuing a pursuit Wednesday. Authorities said an equipped carjacking fishy was killed successful a shootout that critically wounded a seasoned constabulary sergeant. (KTVU)

Police said SJPD’s Real Time Intelligence Center flagged the stolen reddish Corvette utilizing automated licence sheet scholar cameras and provided patrol officers with caller locations of the conveyance successful San Jose up of the shootout.

A San Jose constabulary chopper tracked the fishy arsenic helium traveled southbound into San Benito County, alerting Hollister constabulary and sheriff’s deputies astir 2:48 p.m. Officers aboriginal located the conveyance adjacent Central Avenue and Miller Road and engaged successful a slow-speed pursuit that ended adjacent Buena Vista Road and Westside Boulevard aft the car became disabled.

Police accidental the suspect, equipped with a handgun, abandoned the conveyance and fired astatine officers earlier fleeing connected foot. He was aboriginal confronted adjacent Buena Vista Road and Line Street, wherever sheriff’s deputies besides exchanged gunfire. Authorities said the fishy past carjacked different conveyance astatine gunpoint and fled backmost toward San Jose, firing shots astatine California Highway Patrol officers during the pursuit.

A handgun recovered by constabulary is shown successful an undated grounds photo. Authorities said the limb was collected arsenic portion of an probe into a San Jose shooting. (San Jose Police Department)

A instrumentality enforcement root told KTVU the fishy was wanted successful transportation with aggregate robberies successful East Palo Alto and San Mateo. The pursuit yet ended adjacent Julian and Terraine streets, conscionable disconnected Highway 87, wherever different speech of gunfire erupted.

Police accidental the fishy was killed during that confrontation, and the San Jose constabulary sergeant was wounded by gunfire from the suspect. Bystanders reported proceeding 20 to 30 gunshots successful the neighborhood, and a information of Highway 87 was closed for respective hours arsenic investigators processed the scene.

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An aerial representation shows a idiosyncratic lasting down a constabulary conveyance during a pursuit successful San Jose. Authorities said the incidental ended with an serviceman wounded and fishy dead. (San Jose Police Department)

San Jose constabulary said their officers were not progressive successful the pursuit until it reentered metropolis limits, though a section chopper monitored the fishy throughout, relaying accusation to extracurricular agencies and SJPD units.

Video circulating connected societal media appears to amusement the fishy entering and exiting a constabulary conveyance earlier collapsing arsenic officers rushed toward him. Police said they could not instantly corroborate whether the fishy entered a patrol conveyance and added that the aesculapian examiner volition find the mode of death.

Video shows a fishy holding what appears to beryllium a handgun during a instrumentality enforcement incidental successful San Jose, authorities said. (San Jose Police Department)

"Every serviceman progressive successful yesterday's harrowing incidental volition transportation the heaviness of what happened for the remainder of their lives," Joseph said. "Some members of the nationalist who were caught successful the crossfire described it arsenic the closest happening to warfare they person ever witnessed—and that gives you a consciousness of however aggravated and terrifying those moments were, not conscionable for officers, but for the community."

In a connection shared with KGO, San Jose Police Officers’ Association President Steve Slack praised officers for their response, calling the actions of the wounded sergeant and others "incredible bravery."

"The unthinkable bravery exhibited by each officer, particularly the SJPD sergeant who was changeable and hospitalized aft confronting the unsafe criminal, was connected afloat display," Slack said. He added the fishy "had nary respect for anyone’s beingness and endangered hundreds of guiltless radical during his multiple-county transgression spree."

Police vehicles and officers artifact an intersection down yellowish portion pursuing an officer-involved shooting and pursuit successful San Jose, authorities said. (KTVU)

Slack said officers "ran toward gunfire and yet eliminated the threat," adding the injured sergeant "is successful bully spirits, and we are supporting him and his household successful each mode we can."

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said the officer’s archetypal words aft arriving astatine the infirmary were, "Make definite idiosyncratic takes attraction of my dogs," calling it a reflection of the quality of the section and the risks officers instrumentality to support the community.

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"That’s the benignant of idiosyncratic helium is," Mahan said. "That’s the benignant of radical we person connected our San Jose constabulary unit — radical who enactment their lives connected the enactment to support our families during the time and past spell location astatine nighttime to instrumentality attraction of their ain families."

The probe remains ongoing.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the San Jose Police Department for comment. 

Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send communicative tips to [email protected].