TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Four men were arrested after a dramatic police chase came to a crashing halt in a Tampa neighborhood.
But according to police, that was only after the suspects opened fire on the officers trying to bring them down.
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A woman who lived in the neighborhood was on a normal walk when she ran into the pursuit.
“I am about 20 to 30 feet into my walk, and a car comes screaming down the road, as fast as it came,” neighbor Julie Robinson said.
Robinson said she walked into a wild pursuit as Tampa police were trying to stop a carload full of men in their 20s.
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Police said the suspects shot at them, and then took off. Officers chased them through a neighborhood near Temple Terrace.
“I just sort of stand there and watch him, I throw my hands up, hoping he will see me, and I am irritated, and …