NORCROSS, Ga. (AP) - A teenager who died in a crash was trying to get away from police after allegedly stealing a tip jar from an Atlanta-area pizza restaurant.
In a news release, Gwinnett County police say 18-year-old Jaylen Purge of Duluth died Sunday night after crashing his car into a retention pond.
Italian Pie restaurant manager Juan Angeles tells WSB-TV that Purge grabbed the store’s tip jar with about $100 in it and ran outside. Angeles and a cook ran after him and a passing officer began driving after Purge’s vehicle.
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Authorities say the car disappeared a few blocks away. Police later found the car flipped over and was almost fully submerged in a pond. Purge was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
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Information from: WSB-TV, http://www.wsbtv.com/index.html
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