Twisted Metal: Hero Trucker Takes Out High Speed Chase

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The chase had been screaming through Southern California freeways and streets for two hours, and now the 90mph fleeing suspect was approaching a gas station in Pomona, CA. Truck Driver Ahmed Shaaban had been monitoring the situation and when the suspect’s black pickup truck cunt through a gas station, about to pass in front of him, Ahmed saw his chance and took it. In a dramatic video from Fox11 Los Angeles, we see Shaaban put the hammer down and block the suspect from entering the intersection. The black pickup collided with his rig doing moderate damage to it but disabling the much smaller pickup truck.

From the live coverage of the chase, Ahmed learned that police were pursuing a murder suspect.

“I was looking in my right rearview mirror and I was watching him coming through the gas station,” Shaaban told Sean Hannity on Fox News. 

“My intention really was to block the entire section. But by the time my truck reacted and he gunned his car and I gunned mine and we just slammed into each other.”

He also told CBS LA: “I just waited for the right moment and I blocked him and hit him because if I didn’t stop him, he was going to kill somebody else”.

“I just thought to get him off the street,” Shabaan said, “If I didn’t, and [officers] have been behind him for that long and didn’t stop him … I have the power.”

The suspect Michael Reed, was wanted in connection to a murder. Reed took off after police in Riverside, CA attempted to question him. Instead of cooperating, he fled police in the black pickup truck with a woman who identified herself as ‘Roxy’ how was released by police once she was identified. According to TapHaps, “Reed led cops on a wild, 2-hour-long pursuit with speeds reaching 90pmh as he tore along the 60 Freeway. As he tried to evade the police, both police and TV helicopters hovered overhead. Then, Reed crossed paths with Shaaban.”

High Speed Chase Tag-Along Get’s Her ’15 Minutes’

The woman in the car with Reed identified only as ‘Roxy’ held an impromptu press conference with responding reporters at the gas station near the crash after police released her following brief questioning. She claimed to be a friend of Reed’s just along for the ride and stated she had no idea he was wanted by police.

She told reporters,

“We were hanging out and he said he wanted to help his friend in LA, Roxy told Fox 11. “I said, ‘I am down to roll. It’s all good. We’ll go help your friend,’”

Perhaps Roxy has been paying attention to the recent spate of coverage on the upcoming Kyle Rittenhouse trial, because she was quick to suggest the murder Reed is wanted in connection to “might have been self-defense.”

Ms. Roxy’s assessment notwithstanding, given the extremely dangerous and reckless chase Reed led police on for over 90 minutes that include driving on the wrong side of the road, into oncoming traffic, running several red lights, and even driving on a sidewalk, Ahmed’s actions saved the day and Ahmed Shaban’s name should be added to a very long and prestigious list in the annals of the American press: the “Hero Truckers”.

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