Florida police officers shot and killed a homicide suspect following a chase that left a pedestrian injured on Tuesday, authorities said.
Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Patrick Lynn said during a news conference that his officers spotted a silver pickup truck Tuesday morning that had been connected to a fatal shooting in Port St. Lucie a day earlier. Officers briefly pursued it and shot the 41-year-old driver, Manuel Sanabria, in a confrontation after the chase.
Police in Port St. Lucie, about 90 miles north of Fort Lauderdale, confirmed Sanabria was the man they had been searching for.
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Fort Lauderdale Police work at the scene where they shot and killed a murder suspect, Manuel Sanabria, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on March 7, 2023.
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Authorities didn’t immediately release details about what happened when Sanabria was stopped or whether he had a weapon. Lynn said several officers fired their weapons and Sanabria was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
During the chase, Sanabria’s truck veered onto a business property, where it struck several vehicles and a pedestrian, police said. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue transported the victim to a nearby hospital, where he was in critical condition.
Port St. Lucie police announced Monday night that Sanabria was suspected of fatally shooting a man in his vehicle and described him as armed and dangerous.
