2 in custody, 3 hospitalized following suspected carjacking crash in Parkland

PARKLAND, Wash. - Several teenagers were arrested following a suspected carjacking, which ended in a violent three-car crash in Parkland.

Deputies were called to a crash at 116th St S and C St S in Parkland around 1:01 p.m.

Two occupants in one of the vehicles, including an 85-year-old man, was injured and had to be taken to the hospital for treatment. Another vehicle in the crash was empty, and witnesses told officers they saw three kids running from the crash—and one of them was armed with a pink handgun.

Authorities learned the car was reported stolen in Tacoma, and soon after found three suspects, two boys and one girl.

According to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department, one of the boys suffered a serious injury in the crash and had to be taken to the hospital.

Deputies found the pink handgun when they searched the girl.

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The two uninjured suspects will be booked into Remann Hall for unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle, and the girl faces an additional charge of unlawful possession of a firearm.