The Latest: Suspect in pursuit had fired gun throughout city

The Latest on a police pursuit in Salt Lake City:

11:45 a.m.

Authorities say a robbery suspect killed Monday after leading police on a vehicle pursuit in Salt Lake City had fired his weapon several times at different locations throughout the metro area before he was located by police.

The details and timeline in a news release Tuesday by Salt Lake City area police sheds new light on Harold Vincent Robinson’s actions Monday morning and makes it seem even more remarkable that nobody else was killed.

Police say Robinson’s string of crimes began when he stole a case of beer and flashed a handgun at a convenience store in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville. Thirty minutes later, Robinson pulled the gun again and demanded money at a different convenience store, firing the gun inside.

Within the next half hour before police met up with him, police say Robinson fired shots near a hotel and three other Salt Lake City locations. During the pursuit, they say Robinson fired at several police cars that followed him.

He died after crashing into a tailor’s shop, where police fired dozens of rounds at his truck.

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4/9/19: 10:49 a.m.

The owner of a Salt Lake City tailor’s shop where a man crashed his truck Monday and died after leading police on a chaotic pursuit says “it was like the end of the world” when police rained down gunfire on the truck.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports Tom Mahdi said it felt like being back in the war in his native country of Iraq. Madhi and his family came to Utah as refugees in 2009 and opened the sewing and alterations shop where robbery suspect Harold Vincent Robinson crashed his truck on Monday.

Madhi says he was alone in the rear of the shop and stood frozen with fear and shock as rock and dirt fell around him and loud booms filled the air.

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5:20 p.m.

Utah authorities say a man killed after leading police on a chase down a busy street is 37-year-old man from the Salt Lake City suburb of West Valley City.

Salt Lake City police said in a news release Monday afternoon that the deceased is Harold Vincent Robinson.

Police say Robinson died Monday morning after a police pursuit where he weaved in and out of traffic while leaning out of his truck window and firing his rifle at them. He crashed into a building and police opened fire on his truck.

He was wanted as a suspect in two convenience store robberies.

Online Utah court records show that Robinson had pleaded guilty to assault in 2001 and 2003. He was ordered to go to anger management classes after the 2001 incident which was a domestic violence case.

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3:20 p.m.

Utah authorities say a suspected bank robber has died after he leaned out the window of his truck and fired a rifle at officers during a major pursuit on a busy Salt Lake City street.

Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said Monday that the pursuit began after the suspect carried out two armed robberies in Salt Lake City suburbs.

Rivera and Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown say it appears two people were injured but that nobody else was killed beside the suspect, whose name has not been released.

Authorities wouldn’t say if the suspect was killed by police gunfire or due to injuries from his truck crashing into a building to end the pursuit.

The pursuit caused a shutdown of a Salt Lake City street that goes by a state courthouse.