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Part of a Washington town is in shambles, much of it in shock after a suspect in a stolen RV lost control and took out five cars, two homes, and one fence. Then the suspect ran through the streets, shedding clothes, until he confronted a houseful of people in his underwear.
The incident started about 5:30 p.m. when a man called 911 to say he saw his friend’s stolen RV in an Everett, Washington, Walmart parking lot. He provided the license plate and police determined it was the stolen vehicle.
Police tried to stop the vehicle, but the RV wouldn’t stop. Officers pursued it, until it went swerving and smashing through a small stretch of highway in Granite Falls.
The RV slammed into a car and launched that car into the front of Gary Poplin’s home. “I'm just glad it hit the telephone pole first otherwise I wouldn't have a bedroom,” he said, with a barely distinguishable maroon Ford wedged into his siding.
That was just the beginning of the damage. The RV hit one other car, and broke through Poplin’s wooden fence, and took out the corner of Juliane Rowell’s home before crunching three other cars and finally stopping. Rowell was upstairs at the time and thought there was a big earthquake.
“Then my son started yelling, ‘Mom, Mom, you can't believe this: someone ran into our house!” she explained, standing next to the gaping hole in her front room.
Though the RV was stuck among mangled metal, the suspect kept moving. He jumped out, and started running through the neighborhood, shedding his clothes. He got about third of a mile, when he ran through a home, and confronted a group of young people inside.
“We were hanging out here and someone went running through the house in his underwear,” explained Bryan Crabtree. “He said he was running from the cops and needed clothes, and we said no.”
Instead they ran outside and called police. Moments later, officers were there and pulled the suspect out, who had managed to find a woman’s t-shirt and jeans inside. That’s what he wore as he was booked into the Snohomish County Jail.
No one was hurt in any of the homes involved, but the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office says there was a man in one of the cars that got hit. He was taken to the hospital, but they had not word on his condition.
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