The two officers who shot at a woman driving a stolen California Highway Patrol car have been identified.
The ordeal started Thursday on Interstate 5 near Mission Bay Park. CHP officers handcuffed 27-year-old Casaundra Lane in connection to a hit-and-run and placed her in the back of a CHP vehicle. The suspect managed to get her hands in front of her body, climbed in the front seat and tried to run over an officer, according to the San Diego Police Department. Police said she also tried to reach for a rifle in the cruiser’s console.
That officer, identified as Alexander Pereira, fired several shots at Lane as she drove away in the CHP car, police said.
San Diego police officers spotted the stole CHP vehicle in Mission Valley, where it rammed three civilian vehicles. SDPD Officer Vern Colglazier fired a single shot at the CHP car, police said. Lane was not injured and was taken into custody.
She faces a litany of charges, including assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer, vehicle theft, taking a law enforcement vehicle and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. She is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.
Pereira is a 12-year veteran of the CHP assigned to the San Diego station. Colglazier has been with SDPD for seven years and works out of the Mid-City Division, according to police.
