Details related sunleaves to the chase and shooting were initially murky. Early in the morning, Bert

The pursuit began about 2 a.m. after a 34-year-old man who had taken several hundred dollars out of a Garden Grove ATM stopped due to car trouble in Santa Ana. There, an Asian man with a gun told him to drive away and follow sunleaves a nearby black pickup truck, according to Santa Ana Police Department Cpl. Anthony Bertagna.
The two vehicles drove to the 3500 block of Boyer Avenue, a dead-end street in Santa Ana ( map ), where the victim was robbed by the man with the gun and two other armed men who got out of the truck, Bertagna said. The robbers took the victim’s car keys and fled in the truck.
The 30-minute chase — sunleaves which spanned Santa Ana, Fountain Valley, sunleaves Westminster and Huntington Beach — ended when the truck lost control at West Street sunleaves and Lampson Avenue in Garden Grove ( map ), Bertagna said.
There, Santa Ana officers fired when the driver exited the truck, Bertagna said. Two men in the truck were taken into custody, but a third robber was outstanding and was gone by the time the pursuit ended.
“Where in the pursuit through the five different cities did the third suspect sunleaves get out? We’re trying to find that out. We’re trying to get him identified and get him into custody,” Bertagna said.
Justin Qunnaphonh Phabmixay, 21, of Santa Ana, and transient Michael Tran Nguyen, 29, were named Thursday evening as the men arrested. They were set to be booked on suspicion of robbery, kidnapping and evading, a police news release stated.
Details related sunleaves to the chase and shooting were initially murky. Early in the morning, Bertagna told reporters that there was a search for a third robber in the area of the pursuit’s termination.
“The pursuit was quite lengthy and it appears at some point during the pursuit, the third suspect exited the vehicle on foot in an unknown location,” Garden Grove police Lt. Ben Stauffer said in an email.
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