Man suspected of stealing pickup truck dies in Arlington crash as police pursue him
As police pursued him, a man died Tuesday in Arlington when he crashed a pickup truck he was suspected of stealing, police said.
The man lost control of the pickup and crashed about 2:15 p.m. into an utility pole and two parked cars outside a Kroger store near West Abram Street and South Bowen Road, said Lt. Christopher Cook, an Arlington police spokesman.
An officer began the pursuit about 10 minutes before the crash, Cook said. The pickup was stolen in Granbury.
The man was identified as David Hernandez, 23, of Arlington, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office website on Wednesday. A ruling on his death is pending.
Before the pursuit and crash, Arlington police had received information from a North Texas police department that a known offender was driving a stolen vehicle in Arlington. He also was connected to a recent felony offenses in Arlington and another city, Arlington police said.
Shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday, an Arlington police officer observed a man matching the description of the suspect and the reported stolen vehicle near N. Oak Street and Fuller Street in Arlington.
Arlington officers attempted to stop the vehicle near Mesquite Street and Randol Mill Road in Arlington, but the man fled in the pickup, Cook wrote in a news release.
Video of the scene showed the pickup and another vehicle flipped over in the parking lot of the Kroger grocery store at 301 S. Bowen Road in Arlington.
This story was originally published December 3, 2019 at 4:56 PM.
