surveillance video shows armed carjacking before wild pursuit in Corona
Exclusive images obtained the suspect in last Friday’s wild pursuit robbing a gas station and then carjacking a black truck with an assault weapon as he initially evaded capture from law enforcement.
Surveillance video shows the suspect, Benjamin Gonzalez, pulling into the Corona gas station driving a Mercedes and circling around the gas pumps to get a good look at the location.
Gonzalez then gets out of the Mercedes and enters the convenience store holding an assault rifle.
Moments later, he walks up to the clerk holding what appears to be a pink slushie and asks for some cigarettes before taking off without paying.
The suspect then walks over to a black truck parked at a gas pump, where he meets the truck’s owner, Josh Ross.
Guy comes up, he’s got a big automatic rifle,” said Ross. “He stopped a little closer to me and said, ‘Brotha, I need that truck.'”
The suspect then fired a round, causing Ross to run towards the incoming police officers who were pursuing the suspect in connection with a hit and run in Chino.
I’m thinking like, ‘Dude, the cops are right there. They don’t know it’s him.’ I come sprinting back to tell them ‘He’s in the black truck!