US Park police chase ends in crash that kills moped driver; 3 arrested
Police chase through DC ends with 1 dead, 3 arrested
A moped driver was killed after a police chase ended in a crash on Connecticut Avenue.
WASHINGTON - A moped rider was killed after a police chase ended in a crash near the Taft Bridge Saturday, and several suspects are in custody.
What we know:
The chase started shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday, when U.S. Park Police officers tried to pull over a driver on Rock Creek Parkway in a stolen silver 2014 Honda Accord.
The driver took off, getting off the parkway on Connecticut Avenue. Police said the driver then crossed into oncoming traffic at the intersection of Connecticut and Kalorama Road NW, before crashing into a person on a moped and a diplomat vehicle.
Three people tried to run from the car after the crash, but officers and members of the U.S. Marshals Service quickly arrested them.
Paramedics pronounced the moped driver dead at the scene. He has since been identified as 46-year-old Nolberto Meza of Hyattsville, Maryland.
Two people inside the Toyota RAV4 diplomat vehicle were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The Metropolitan Police Department's Major Crash Investigations Unit took over the case and filed charges against the three suspects.
The driver, 24-year-old Tomas Anderson of Northeast, D.C., has been charged with second-degree murder. The other two occupants, 19-year-old Donnie Palacios of Southeast, D.C., and a 16-year-old juvenile male from Fort Washington, Maryland, have been charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle – crime of violence.
What we don't know:
The U.S. Park Police and MPD are still investigating what caused the crash.
The Source: Information in this story is from the United States Park Police Department and the Metropolitan Police Department.