Police say driver fatally shot after fleeing, then crashing into Tesla: ‘Mother of all booms’

A 36-year-old man was fatally shot Saturday night after fleeing from Pasadena police officers and crashing into a resident’s parked Tesla, police say.

Around 8:40 p.m., the department said officers discovered a parked white pickup truck facing the wrong direction on a one-way street on Hudson Avenue in Pasadena, not far from the California Institute of Technology campus.

As the officers were talking with the driver, he suddenly sped away, “narrowly� missing hitting an officer, according to a release sent out by the agency. Police pursued, saying in a statement the driver was now wanted for “assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer.�

The suspect, identified by police as Ricardo Guade Andrade of San Fernando, soon crashed into the frontyard of a nearby home, police said. Ring doorbell camera footage of the incident shows a white truck crashing into a Tesla parked in the driveway.

John Kelleher, a 20-year resident of Pasadena, said he was relaxing at home with his dogs when he heard “the mother of all booms� emanating from his frontyard.

“He went over my hedges, across my front lawn, and then T-bones the Tesla,� Kelleher said.

He said the Tesla was pushed into his neighbor’s fence.

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Andrade fled on foot and was soon located in a nearby backyard. As a police dog “engaged� the suspect, the department said, he took out a handgun.

“The suspect refused to comply with orders to drop the handgun and an officer-involved shooting occurred,� police said in a statement.

The man was pronounced dead at a local hospital, according to the Pasadena police.

The department said a handgun was found at the scene.