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WEBVTT SHORTLY AFTER 2:30 THIS AFTERNOON, A WOM SAW A POLICE OFFICER AND YELLED OUT THE PASSENGER WINDOW. >> WAS YELLING TO THE EFFECT THAT SHE WAS BEING ASSAULTED AND POSSIBLY KIDNAPPED. REPORTER: THE VEHICLE SPED OFF IN THE OFFICER CHASED IT DOWN. THE PURSUIT IN LAST LONG AS THE WHITE DODGE STATION WAGON SLANDERS TWO OTHER VEHICLES. -- SLAMMED INTO TWO OTHER VEHICLES. A WOMAN HEARD THE SCREECHING BRAKES IN THE LAB CRASHES, LOOKED OUTSIDE AND SAW THE OFFICERS RUNNING UP. >> I COULD HEAR THEM SAYING, DON’T REACH FOR YOUR GUN, DON’T GRAB THE GUN. REPORTER: ANOTHER WITNESS SAW THE OFFICER AS WELL. >> DIFFERENT COPS HELPED HIM TO PULL THE DOOR AND THEN HE PULLED ONE OF THE PASSENGERS OUT. SHE WASN’T ABLE TO WALK GOOD. REPORTER: HE WATCHED FROM HIS APARTMENT WINDOW AND SAW OFFICERS PULLED THE WOUNDED MAN FROM THE DRIVERS SEAT. HE WAS WOUNDED FROM HERE TO HERE, BLOOD FROM NECK TO HEAR -- TWO HERE/ . >> THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL MAYBE ONE-YEAR-OLD AND SHE WAS CRYING AND IT WAS REALLY SAD. REPORTER: AS FOR THE DRIVER, POLICE SAY HE SUFFERE

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A man is dead after being shot during a police chase by a passenger Thursday afternoon in Fairfield, police said.The 22-year-old man was taken to a hospital after he crashed into two other vehicles, police said. He later died.Police said the man was shot by a 24-year-old woman who was in the vehicle with him. A 10-month-old child was also inside. The child was not hurt in the crash. The woman is talking with investigators.Police said the woman and the man were believed to be in a relationship and lived together. Investigators consider this a domestic violence incident.The incident began around 2:35 p.m. when a sergeant was flagged down by the woman, screaming that she was being kidnapped, police said."A woman tried to get his attention," Lt. Greg Hurlbut said. "She yelled something to the effect that she was being assaulted and possibly kidnapped."The man then took off in his vehicle and the sergeant chased him. After a short pursuit, the man crashed into other vehicles on East Travis Boulevard at Dover Avenue. People in the other vehicles suffered minor injuries.A female witness who did not want to be identified said she watched and listened as police approached the car after it crashed, "I could hear them saying don’t reach for your gun don’t grab the gun.”“(The police) said everyone get out of the car, and (the man) tried to open the door, but he couldn’t,” said Jeffrey Azor, who lives feet away from the crash scene. "Then a different cop came to pull the door. And after that, he pulled one of the passengers out -- it was a woman. She wasn’t able to walk very good.""When I saw him, (the man) was wounded from here to here," witness Arsalan Alam said while pointing to his neck and chest. "The blood is from the neck to here, and police took him away."Officers closed East Travis Boulevard between San Bruno Street and Flamingo Drive while they investigated. The roadway reopened around 10 p.m.The investigation is ongoing.No other details have been released.