Police slammed a man's head into a car that they thought he had stolen, video shows. The man died. [View all]

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David Glen Ward, 52, was the victim of a carjacking Nov. 24 and somehow got the vehicle back, police said. Ward, however, did not tell law enforcement that he had recovered the car.

A Santa Rosa police detective called the sheriff’s office around 5:40 a.m. Nov. 27 to say that the Honda had been spotted. When Deputy Jason Little tried to stop the car minutes later, police said Ward started to pull over but then led police on a five-mile pursuit that reached speeds of more than 70 mph.

Police said Little tried to stop Ward with a PIT maneuver — a tactic in which officers ram their vehicles into a fleeing vehicle to force it to swerve sideways. Little ordered Ward to show his hands but then continued driving, telling a dispatcher that Ward had kept moving his hands toward his waist.

Blount then arrived and ordered Ward to unlock his car door with one hand. Ward moved his hand toward the lock button, but the door did not unlock. Ward rolled down the window.

“I can’t believe this. I’m the injured party in this,” he said. He asked the deputies why they were “harassing [him] all the time."

The deputies tried to pull Ward out of the window while Ward yelled, “My legs! My legs!” Blount pointed out that Ward’s leg was under the steering wheel.

“He bit me!” Blount cried out. A few seconds later, Little said Ward had bit him, as well.

That’s when Blount pulled Ward’s head out of the window by his hair and slammed it into the car’s frame. A crunching noise rang out as Ward moaned.

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Deputy Nick Jax then arrived and told the other officers that the man lying unconscious in front of them was the car’s owner.

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That’s David Ward,” Jax said.

“Then why did he run?” Little asked.

“I don’t know why he ran,” Jax replied. “You have every — All this, it’s legit. He had no reason to run. But I was out with him earlier, like two hours ago, at his house. The car wasn’t there at the time. Obviously, he somehow, he made contact with the guy and got it. But he was here two hours ago, and this is him."

“Oh well,” Blount said.

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