SANTA ANA – A troubled son of a former star on “The Real Housewives of Orange County” was charged Wednesday with three counts of attempted murder after allegedly leading police on a chase and hiding in a Santa Ana store.

Joshua Waring, the 27-year-old son of former reality TV personality Lauri Peterson, was scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday but the hearing was postponed to Thursday after he refused to come out of his jail cell, authorities said.

Waring is accused of shooting a 35-year-old man in the lower torso at 2:20 a.m. Monday on the 2900 block of Babb Street in Costa Mesa, police said. The victim was in serious condition but expected to survive.

Two other victims, a man and a woman, were standing nearby but not hit, prompting prosecutors to file two additional attempted murder charges, police said.

Waring fled the scene in a stolen BMW and was spotted by a police helicopter about 10:30 a.m. in Santa Ana, police said. Waring led police on a chase, at one point getting into a traffic accident, took off on foot near Fourth and Terminal streets and tried to hide in a store before surrendering, authorities said.

A resident of San Juan Capistrano, Waring has had more than a dozen misdemeanor and felony charges, mostly drug-related, dating back to at least 2008. He has been arrested in the past on suspicion of assault and spousal battery and has several cases pending in Orange County Superior Court.

In the first season of “Real Housewives,” Waring was in juvenile detention in Orange for an incident at school that involved possible marijuana possession.

Peterson is one of the original “Real Housewives of Orange County.” Her trials and tribulations, often with her son, were documented for four seasons until the severity of her son’s legal troubles and drug addiction, and her desire for privacy, prompted her to bow out in 2009.

Waring was being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

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