{"id":387974,"date":"2026-01-04T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/387974\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:40:10","slug":"garden-grove-police-officer-in-critical-condition-after-being-hit-by-car-while-chasing-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/387974\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Grove police officer in critical condition after being hit by car while chasing suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; A Garden Grove police officer was hospitalized Sunday morning after he was hit by a car while he was chasing a suspect through a neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The incident happened just after midnight near Stanford Avenue and Brookhurst Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police received a report about a man with a knife who was reportedly assaulting a clerk at a nearby 7-Eleven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The suspect ignored officers commands and a foot pursuit ensued,&#8221; said the Garden Grove Police Department in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">While officers were chasing the suspect, one of them was hit by a car. The officer remains hospitalized in critical condition, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The suspect has since been arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Meantime, the driver who hit the officer remained on the scene and is cooperating with investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Thank you to AnaheimPD, OrangePD, CHP and any other agencies who assisted in getting our officer safely to the hospital, the investigation, or assisted in getting the suspect in custody,&#8221; said the department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; A Garden Grove police officer was hospitalized Sunday morning after he was hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[188514,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-387974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-188514","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}