Burned body found, chase ensues, in San Bernardino's 27th homicide of 2016

San Beardino police this moing are investigating the city’s 27th homicide of 2016 at the coer of Sixth Street and Sterling Avenue, and a man was taken into custody following a pursuit that led law enforcement from the grisly scene to the city of Paramount.

Two juveniles are also in custody, said San Beardino police Lt. Richard Lawhead.

Detectives are focusing their efforts on a trash bin in a vacant field off Sixth Street where initial reports show that a body was bued.

Sixth Street has been shut down between Sterling and Lankershim avenues for the investigation.

Deputies stumbled on the scene around 1 a.m. when three people fled, initiating a chase that ended near Paramount, according to initial reports.

Once the chase crossed into Los Angeles County, San Beardino deputies asked the CHP to pick up the pursuit, said CHP Officer Francisco Villalobos.

The CHP took over the chase on the westbound 10 Freeway around the 57 Freeway in the San Dimas area, Villalobos said. The suspect then transitioned from the 10 Freeway to the southbound 710 Freeway around the Monterey Park area.

From there, the suspect moved to the eastbound 105 Freeway in the Downey-South Gate area, Villalobos said.

“The suspect then exited on Lakewood Boulevard in Paramount and the pursuit ended on Orizaba Avenue, just north of Golden Avenue at 1:36 a.m.,” Villalobos added.

The CHP took the man into custody in Paramount and was holding him for the San Beardino Sheriff’s Department, which was sending detectives to pick him up, according to Villalobos.

In response to questions from reporters about why he led law enforcement on the wild two-county pursuit in a vehicle hauling a trailer, the unidentified suspect said cryptically, “I just wanted to see my wife.”

It is unclear at this time where the two juveniles were apprehended.

More to come.

City News Service contributed to this report.

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