PHOENIX — A man and a woman face multiple felony charges after reportedly stealing a car at gunpoint and shooting at officers as they led police on a chase Friday.
Glendale police said they responded to reports of a carjacking in a residential neighborhood near 91st Avenue and Camelback Road around 5 p.m. Friday.
The person who called 911 said he was robbed at gunpoint in front of his home by a man and woman who demanded his personal belongings and his white 2015 Chevy suburban. He told dispatchers the suspects fled the area in his car.
Officers saw a vehicle matching the victim's in the area of 83rd and Glendale avenues.
As police followed the car to confirm whether it was the stolen suburban, the occupants began to shoot at the marked patrol cars.
Glendale officers began a pursuit because of the violent threat toward the community.
Police said the suspects continued to drive recklessly southeast on Grand Avenue, hitting two cars with the suburban.
One of the vehicles crashed into by the suburban was also hit by a fired round, police said, causing minor injuries to the occupant from broken glass.
Police said no occupants were hit by the fired shots directly.
The suburban continued southeast on Grand Avenue, continuing to fire shots at the pursuing officers, Glendale police said.
The two suspects bailed from the suburban and tried to run from police near 43rd Avenue and Camelback Road, police said.
Officers chased the suspects and were able to take both of them into custody.
Police said the man resisted as officers tried to arrest him, and the man received minor injuries from the incident. The man received medical treatment and was released back into police custody.
No officers were injured during the incident.
The suspects, identified Monday as 18-year-old Kristian Leonel Medeiros and 18-year-old Yazmin Garcia-Hernandez, admitted to stealing the money and suburban for food and intentionally firing out the window to try to get officers to stop chasing them, police said.
Police said they found one abandoned firearm on Grand Avenue, which was discovered to be stolen. Officers also found 10 of the fired shell casings along Grand Avenue.
Four other other vehicles were found to be damaged by the suspects, according to police. Two of the vehicles were hit by their gunfire and three of them were hit by the fleeing suburban. Police said the injuries were only minor.
Medeiros and Garcia-Hernandez were booked on multiple felony charges, including aggravated assault on a police officer, aggravated assault, armed robbery, theft of means of transportation, criminal damage, discharge of a firearm within city limits and failing to yield.