A police pursuit ended in a double-fatal crash in Mount Pleasant on Friday, according to the Mount Pleasant Police Department.<\/p>\n
Ryan Herrera, 20, of Yonkers, was driving a red Toyota Supra on Route 9 when he veered off the road and crashed into a tree, killing himself and his passenger, 21-year-old Jaden D. Sanabria, of the Bronx. Officers found two stolen semi-automatic pistols in the car.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the pursuit began around 4 a.m. when a patrol officer spotted the Toyota traveling around 100 mph. The officer pulled onto Route 9a and attempted to catch up to the car, turning on its emergency lights for a better view when they spotted it was approaching an intersection on Route 9a and North State Rd in Briarcliff Manor. <\/p>\n
According to investigators, the car did not have a license plate and was equipped with extremely dark window tints. The Toyota took off and the officer lost sight of it again.<\/p>\n
Police say the officer spotted debris in the road and a vehicle’s headlights shining in the brush near the Route 100 northbound entrance ramp. <\/p>\n
According to authorities, the officer stopped and realized the Toyota had crashed, prompting a request for medical assistance and backup.<\/p>\n
Both Sanabria and Herrera were found unresponsive inside the car, which was heavily damaged, complicating rescue efforts, according to investigators. <\/p>\n
Police say a backup officer climbed onto the Toyota’s hood and saw Sanabria lying across the front console with a pistol next to his hand.<\/p>\n
Officers secured the gun and removed Sanabria from the car, which cleared their view into the driver’s side. They then saw Herrera in the driver’s seat, with a gun between his legs.<\/p>\n
According to authorities, officers secured the second weapon and removed Sanabria from the Toyota.<\/p>\n
Both men were not wearing seatbelts, had balaclava coverings on their faces and lacked any form of personal identification.<\/p>\n
Police say paramedics rushed Sanabria and Herrera to Westchester Medical Center, where they died.<\/p>\n
Investigators say they discovered that the Toyota had been rented through a social media platform. Its rear license plate had been removed before the crash and it did not have a front license plate.<\/p>\n
The renter allowed investigators to access the GPS that recorded the Toyota’s speed – it showed the car drove over 100 mph multiple times Friday morning and, at one point, was traveling 134 mph.<\/p>\n
Police say the men would have been charged with criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of stolen property. Herrera would have faced additional charges, including unlicensed operation of a vehicle, reckless driving and unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n
The Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigations is tasked to look into the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police pursuit ended in a double-fatal crash in Mount Pleasant on Friday, according to the Mount Pleasant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-325304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}