Crime & Safety

Alleged Road Rage on 405 Freeway Turns into Hit and Run in Brentwood Glen

Heavy police units shut down Brentwood Glen neighborhood after freeway road rage incident later becomes a hit and run, resulting in one driver fleeing police.

An alleged road rage and hit and run incident spilled off the 405 Freeway into a Brentwood Glen neighborhood Saturday, April 6, putting residents into lock down. Police are still investigating the man and woman involved and both were operating separate vehicles.

No charges have been made as of Monday, April 8, according to Det. Nelson Hernandez of the Los Angeles Police Department's West Traffic Division.

"We are investigating it as a possible hit and run," Hernandez told Patch Monday. "We're still looking into it. We have to talk to both parties who were in the freeway thing that led to the street."

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Hernandez noted that the man, whom witnesses describe as being threatening, was not charged. He added that one person did complain of minor pain.

Between 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Brentwood Glen was swarming with LAPD officers (one unit equipped with riot gear), hovering helicopters and California Highway Patrol officers, according to resident Tracy Hunt who gave a secondhand account and provided photos to Patch.

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CHP Public Information Officer Karina Munoz confirmed with Patch late Monday afternoon that they responded to an incident at 2:30 p.m. on the 405 Freeway southbound near the Getty Center Drive exit involving two vehicles.

Munoz also alluded to a road rage incident occurring on the freeway, but CHP did not arrest anyone once it went into LAPD jurisdiction.

It's unknown where exactly the two vehicles exited the freeway to come to a stop at Beloit Avenue and Homedale Street in Brentwood Glen. Hunt said she was driving home a little after 3 p.m. until she came to a police road block on Church Lane at Montana Avenue. She parked and waited on the sidewalk.

Hunt added that the woman, who claimed afterward she was a retired LAPD officer, drove a Mercedes and the man drove a Ford Bronco-type of SUV with a push bar.

When the vehicles entered Beloit Avenue, Hunt said the man smashed into the Mercedes and then hit two other cars, including an Audi, which his SUV apparentely became wedged under. Hunt said the man, wearing a white shirt and camouflage pants, then fled on foot.

Police quickly arrived, set up a perimeter and began searching the blocks south of Homedale Avenue - Gladwin and Farlin streets, according to Hunt.

"They searched yard to yard for him," Hunt said. A neighbor on Gladwin reportedly saw the man hiding in a storage unit on Church Lane just north of Farlin. Police rushed in to arrest the man, who Hunt said had "removed his shirt and turned his pants inside out to disguise himself."

Hunt added that she spoke to the woman after the incident, who said she was from Palos Verdes. Another officer drove the woman home since her car was totaled.

- Patch Field Editor Jared Morgan contributed to this report.

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