Man Fleeing Scene Shot After Trying to Run Over Police : Crime: Garden Grove officers answering disturbance call then chase the slightly wounded man into Anaheim, where he is eventually captured. No officers are injured.

A Garden Grove police officer shot and wounded a suspect in the leg Wednesday after the man tried to run over the officer while fleeing the scene of a family disturbance, police said.

With a minor flesh wound, Glen Howard Nibbe, 24, then led police on a car chase into Anaheim. He was eventually detained by an off-duty security guard until Anaheim police took him into custody, police said.

Nibbe was booked into the Orange County Jail on charges of assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon--the vehicle--and evading arrest. His bail has been set at $100,000.

The incident, in which no officers were injured, unfolded at 6:45 p.m. when police called to a disturbance in the 11500 block of Gail Lane saw Nibbe leaving in his car, Lt. John Woods said.

Nibbe and a friend had visited the home of the friend’s elderly aunt, who called police because she has a restraining order against her nephew, Capt. Dave Abrecht said.

Nibbe, who has no known address, was not the focus of the call to police, but when officers arrived they saw him hastily trying to flee in his pickup truck, Abrecht said.

Nibbe stopped during the pursuit, but when police got out of their cars he drove at the officers, one of whom opened fire, Woods said.

“He made an attempt to flee and in the course of fleeing he would have run the officer over,” Abrecht said.

Nibbe took off again, driving through a maze of dead-end residential streets before abandoning his car in the 1600 block of Wilmot Lane in Anaheim. Anaheim police joined Garden Grove officers at the scene, but before they located Nibbe, off-duty security officer Tom Carpenter noticed Nibbe and thought he looked suspicious.

Abrecht said Carpenter happened to be driving in the area, noticed the police helicopter and thought he might be able to help officers, who had not yet arrived on the scene.

Carpenter approached Nibbe, who tried to flee into the back yard of a nearby home, but a resident yelled to Carpenter that Nibbe didn’t live there, Woods said. Carpenter then tackled Nibbe and held him until Anaheim police arrested him.

Nibbe was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange for treatment of the minor gunshot wound. Abrecht said police still are trying to determine why Nibbe was fleeing officers. He had no outstanding warrants and was not armed, Abrecht said.

But Nibbe’s father, Robert Nibbe of Huntington Beach, said his son had an outstanding traffic citation and had failed to appear for a court date Aug. 14.

Nibbe was recently fired from a Roto Rooter job, and did not have a permanent place to live, moving instead from friend to friend. Robert Nibbe said his son has lived with him several times in recent years for six-month stretches, and seemed lethargic, combative and unwilling to look for work.

After Nibbe rang up $500 in charges on his father’s credit card recently, Robert Nibbe asked him to move out, he said. Just a few days ago, Nibbe visited his father and the two sat down to talk about his options and a life that seemed stalled.

“He just doesn’t understand that he can’t keep fighting authority,” said Robert Nibbe, 56. “And that’s what he keeps doing. . . . I almost expected something like this to happen.”

Woods said the district attorney’s office is investigating the incident, as it does for all officer-involved shootings.

The shooting marks Garden Grove’s second officer-involved shooting this year.

On July 18, officers shot and killed Tyler Lee Boyles, 20, who called police saying he had a gun, was about to commit a robbery, and wanted officers to come and shoot him. A district attorney’s investigation of that shooting is continuing.