Officer Hurt as Pursued Car Spins and Strikes Police Unit
A police officer was injured Sunday night after a stolen car he was pursuing spun around and hit his patrol car head-on.
The officer, Gregory Davis, 23, was taken to Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, where he was reported in stable condition with “moderate injuries” resulting from the crash.
The armed suspect, Roy Allan Dockings, 38, of Canyon Lake in Riverside County, was arrested after a three-hour standoff with about 25 members of the city’s SWAT team who had surrounded the disabled stolen car on England Street just south of Yorktown Avenue.
The incident began shortly after 5 p.m. about three-quarters of a mile away near Beach Boulevard and Owens Street, when Davis became suspicious of the vehicle, according to Huntington Beach Police Lt. Luis Ochoa. When Davis tried to pull it over, Ochoa said, the car sped off, forcing Davis to give chase.
After the collision, Ochoa said, Dockings produced a handgun and pointed it at his own head. Officers rescued the injured patrolman, who was trapped in his car.
Ochoa described the stolen car as a 1992 Pontiac reported to have been taken from San Diego.
Davis, he said, has been with the Police Department for about two years.
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