Corvette Owner Witnesses Cop Being Shot, Gets In 'Vette And Chases Suspect

TTAC Staff
by TTAC Staff

An Albuquerque Car Wash owner watched in shock as Christopher Chase shot police officer Matthew Hannum in the leg and then stole the officer’s police car. “Seeing an individual like a police officer get shot like we noticed. I mean poor guy got shot and he was hurt. I wanted to do all I can to go there and help him,” said the business owner, who prefers to remain anonymous.

“When he got in the police unit and took off I wasn’t going to let the individual get away especially when no one else was around,” he said.

So the gentleman got into his 2003 Corvette, a C5 with some go-fast parts, called 911 on his cellphone and proceeded to chase the fleeing Chase.

“[The 911 operator] kept on telling me to pull over and stop and this and that. That I’m breaking the law,” he said.

At first it was a low speed chase, no faster than 40 mph, but after Chase stopped in the middle of an intersection to fire off some shots at a nearby police cruiser and then got back into the stolen cop car, the car wash owner says that speeds exceeded 100 miles an hour. He stayed on the suspect’s tail, relaying information to the emergency operator until Albuquerque Police Department officers caught up to them.

“I have family and friends in APD and so I’m not going to allow an individual like that to get away and have those individuals suffer for the rest of their lives,” he said.


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  • Reclusive_in_nature Reclusive_in_nature on Nov 01, 2013

    Nothing draws condemnation from the pussies of the world like someone who credibly exhibits that he\she is indeed not one.

  • Jeffzekas Jeffzekas on Nov 02, 2013

    I was just thinking about the gunman who killed a bunch of people in a Reno, Nevada diner. There was a civilian in the diner who had a concealed weapon. He did nothing. That was his right. But there were a lot more dead folks than necessary, had he taken some kind of action-- any kind of action-- rather than cowering on the floor. But again, that was his right-- to do nothing. Same for the airliner that crashed in a field during the Sept 11th attacks: those passengers could have done nothing. But they stopped an airliner from being flown into another building and killing thousands more. They "should" have done nothing, according to some of the posters here. But instead, the saved lives by taking decisive action.

  • Burger Boy Burger Boy on Nov 02, 2013

    This probably wouldn't have been a news story if the guy had chased the perp in a Camry.

  • Seabrjim Seabrjim on Nov 02, 2013

    TTAC isnt anti police. Wake up however, and you will see society has become anti police. With good reason. Your youtube account probably has police helping old ladies cross the street on the way to church.

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