{"id":69189,"date":"2024-04-23T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home2\/auburn-police-arrest-driver-at-lea-hill-park-for-hitting-woman-video\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T22:05:00","slug":"auburn-police-arrest-driver-at-lea-hill-park-for-hitting-woman-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/auburn-police-arrest-driver-at-lea-hill-park-for-hitting-woman-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn Police arrest driver at Lea Hill Park for hitting woman | Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"position:relative;overflow:hidden;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/players\/7Jxdyqhw-4Tg7R3ZA.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" title=\"Auburn driver stopped with PIT maneuver\" style=\"position:absolute;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Auburn Police arrested an 18-year-old man for investigation on multiple felony charges for allegedly driving through Lea Hill Park on April 20 and striking and injuring a 20-year-old woman.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Auburn Police Department, the 18-year-old man struck the woman, believed to be known by the driver, in Lea Hill Park with a vehicle. First responders transported the woman to a local hospital for injuries suffered in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department, police received reports of a vehicle driving through Lea Hill Park. According to the department&rsquo;s public information log, police received the reports at around 2:25 p.m., with several callers advising dispatch that the driver of a black 2010 Honda Fit appeared to be intentionally trying to hit people in the park.<\/p>\n<p>En route to the park, a responding officer passed the Honda Fit as the vehicle was leaving, and after the officer spotted the vehicle, a short pursuit began.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/previews\/7Jxdyqhw-4Tg7R3ZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dashcam footage of the pursuit<\/a> from the Auburn Police Department showed the pursuing officer deployed a PIT maneuver on the Honda Fit with his patrol vehicle, resulting in the Honda Fit losing control and spinning sideways. The pursuing officer and a second patrol vehicle proceeded to block and trap the Honda Fit between the two patrol vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested the 18-year-old suspect occupant, booking him into the King County Jail on multiple felony charges, including domestic violence assault in the first degree, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department, early investigation leads officers to believe the incident likely serves as a domestic violence case, with the driver targeting a significant other.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation into the incident continues, as of April 22, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>No formal charges have been filed against the suspect as of April 22.<\/p>\n<p>See the dashcam footage here:<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"position:relative;overflow:hidden;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/players\/7Jxdyqhw-4Tg7R3ZA.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" title=\"Auburn driver stopped with PIT maneuver\" style=\"position:absolute;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dashcam footage shows the pursuing officer deploying a PIT maneuver on the Honda Fit <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"featured_media":69190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-69189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69189"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=69189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}