3 Killed in Crash During Police Chase : Pursuit: A 1-year-old girl and a woman in a car hit by the fleeing suspects die. A gang member is also a victim.

Three people were killed--including a 1-year-old girl--when a car of gang members fleeing police raced past a stop sign and plowed into another car on El Segundo Boulevard in Hawthorne, authorities said Sunday.

One gang member, Artilo Gonzales Aguilera, 20, was killed, along with the toddler, Jameshia Perkins, and Ida Logan, 23, who were riding in the other car. A 3-year-old girl and a 22-year-old woman traveling with Logan, who lived in Hawthorne, were hospitalized.

Police said the chase started Saturday after three armed gang members shot down the front door of a house in the 12500 block of Fonthill Avenue about 7:20 p.m. They wounded a 17-year-old girl inside and then ransacked the home, investigators said. When a police cruiser arrived on the scene, the trio fled with stolen money to a car where two others were waiting.

With the cruiser in pursuit, the gang members sped through the intersection of Kornblum Avenue and El Segundo a few blocks away, striking the vehicle carrying the two women and two children. Four gang members then fled on foot, exchanging gunfire with police, whose numbers had grown.

One suspect, a 17-year-old, was caught and arrested on suspicion of murder, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, police said. He is being held without bail in the Hawthorne jail. The other three suspects--including a female and a male believed to be wounded in the gun battle--remained at large Sunday.

The 17-year-old robbery victim was treated for a gunshot wound and released, police said. Two children in the house at the time of the break-in were unhurt.

Crash victim Shimich Simpson, 3, of Hawthorne was in critical condition Sunday at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Kelsey Indricka, 22, was in stable condition at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center. Police did not know if the women and children were related.

Hawthorne Police Lt. John Beerling described the police pursuit as “well within policy,” saying that the crash occurred “within seconds” of the start of the chase.