South End pursuit starts with gunfire, ends with crash

A man shot at sheriff’s deputies early Monday during a high-speed chase that ended in the parking lot of a Tacoma bowling alley, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said.

No one was hurt.

The chase started after a deputy spotted a man driving recklessly about 3:30 a.m. on Waller Road and tried to pull him over. The man sped away, firing several rounds at deputies.

He eventually lost control of the car near South 72nd and South D streets, drove through a yard and crashed in the bowling alley parking lot.

The man and a female passenger ran away. Deputies used a tracking dog to find the man, who was hiding on the roof of a nearby home.

The car and the gun used to shoot at deputies were stolen, sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.

This story was originally published August 3, 2015 at 8:06 AM with the headline "South End pursuit starts with gunfire, ends with crash."