Police in Michigan mentioned a bunch of greater than 20 folks broke right into a car holding lot final week, had a shootout with a safety guard earlier than making off with 13 autos and led officers on a prolonged high-speed chase.

One of many thieves died after crashing a 2022 Ford Mustang he had taken, based on TV station Fox 2 in Detroit, and college students at Oakland College have been informed to shelter in place for 5 hours after police discovered one other stolen car deserted on campus and assumed the suspects have been nonetheless armed.

It wasn’t clear whether or not the lot the place the autos have been stolen was affiliated with a dealership or an auto public sale. The autos taken have been costly, high-powered fashions from a number of manufacturers.

Police recovered seven of the 13 autos however had positioned just one suspect, other than the Mustang driver who died, ABC 12 in Flint reported. They mentioned large-scale car thefts have turn out to be more and more frequent within the space, however that this was the primary incident involving gunfire.

The thieves shot on the holding lot’s safety guard and rammed his automotive within the incident, which occurred round 3 a.m. Nov. 14. The guard was not injured.

“Fired pictures at him, he exchanged gunfire with these suspects,” Flint Police Chief Terance Inexperienced informed Fox 2. “They have been capable of get into autos and drove by the gate, damaging different autos on the way in which out and have been capable of get away.”