{"id":183780,"date":"2026-02-19T01:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183780\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:11:08","slug":"shooting-suspect-captured-after-reckless-pursuit-through-south-bay-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183780\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Suspect Captured After Reckless Pursuit Through South Bay Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspect wanted in a shooting was taken into custody Wednesday after leading police on a reckless pursuit through Inglewood, Hawthorne, Gardena and Harbor Gateway.<\/p>\n<p>The chase began about 3:10 p.m. near Vermont Avenue and Imperial Highway in the Westmont district, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed the suspect was wanted in connection with a shooting, but few details were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>During the pursuit, the suspect drove erratically, traveling onto sidewalks and against traffic while attempting to evade officers and narrowly avoiding multiple vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The pursuit ended shortly before 4:30 p.m. near Purche and Ardath avenues in Inglewood, where the suspect surrendered and was taken into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect wanted in a shooting was taken into custody Wednesday after leading police on a reckless pursuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[86816,38479,131,133,132,2592,86817,135,10809,2131],"class_list":{"0":"post-183780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-captured","9":"tag-communities","10":"tag-long-beach","11":"tag-long-beach-headlines","12":"tag-long-beach-news","13":"tag-pursuit","14":"tag-reckless","15":"tag-shooting","16":"tag-south","17":"tag-suspect"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}