Three armed suspects in a Verizon store robbery in Queens led police on a wild chase through a residential neighborhood Wednesday, crashing into several cars and a house before they got out of the car and started running, police and witnesses say.
Two of the three suspects were later captured.
Police said officers responding to a call for three armed, masked robbers at a Verizon store on Northern Boulevard saw the suspects take off in a white van around 8 p.m. and pursued them.
The chase took them through Willets Point Boulevard. Witnesses said they saw a white van tearing through the street, crashing into cars along the way before it slammed into a house. The suspects then took off on foot.
"When the van hit one of these cars, the guy actually got out and ran after the perpetrators, I guess, with the cops and tried to catch them," said Freddie LoPiccolo, who lives a block away.
"Everybody was running, it was chaos. You see how many cars he crashed into in the meantime," he said. "It was insane."
The suspects were captured about a block away, and two were arrested, according to police. Xavier Oneal, 20, and Andrew Taylor, 38, were charged with robbery, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, fleeing an officer in a motor vehicle and menacing, police said.
It was not immediately known if they had attorneys.
Police said one man is still on the run.
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"I've been here 50 years, I've never seen anything like this in our neighborhood," said LoPiccolo.
There was no immediate report of any injuries.
