Why did Mustafa Mustafa start a police chase in Los Angeles?
Police Tuesday identified the man who led them on a chase for more than five hours — in a luxury $125,000 Bentley — before turning a gun on himself. The man, wanted for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend with a deadly weapon, was identified as 27-year-old Mustafa Mustafa. After the chade, the suspect sat in his car and kept police at bay in North Hollywood. He allegedly threatened to harm them, or himself, several times. Surrounded by armed SWAT officers, Mustafa shot himself in the head. He died hours later, according to Norma Eisenman, of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Media Relations Department. Mustafa died early Tuesday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Sgt. Ernest Fisher said. The low-speed pursuit covered several Southern California freeways Monday night before the man came to a stop on a street near Universal Studios very close to where the chase began. About 90 minutes later, television news video showed three large armored vehicles surround the car
