A man ran away after leading police on a car chase from Philadelphia to New Jersey Wednesday night.
The partially caught-on-camera chase began after patrol officers spotted a dark-colored Honda that investigators said fit the description of a vehicle they were searching for in connection to a prior shooting near Kensington and Allegheny avenues in Philadelphia shortly after 9:30 p.m.
As the officers notified dispatchers, the driver of the vehicle -- an Accord with specific blue-tinted after-market headlights -- sped off and continued through the city's Kensington neighborhood before traveling onto I-95 northbound, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
The driver continued driving into Northeast Philadelphia and then crossed the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, police said.
Philly police notified New Jersey police departments that the car was coming their way. The driver continued for some time along Route 73 through South Jersey communities before entering Evesham Township, New Jersey, investigators said.
The driver then pulled into a funeral home's parking lot at Route 73 and Evesham Road, got out of the vehicle and ran off into a wooded area.
SkyForce10 captured exclusive video of the pursuit. The news chopper was over the scene as responding Evesham Township police officers took the man in his 20s into custody shortly after. Evesham police said the arrest happened without further incident.
Police found the man's ID inside the car, which they impounded, Small said.
Small said that the man captured after the chase is being questioned as a person of interest in the chase.
The car initially appeared to be similar to the one used in both Saturday night's shooting in Kensington that wounded nine people as well as an early October shooting that happened in the same area in the Philadelphia neighborhood, police said.
But, later on Thursday morning, Philadelphia police released information that the car -- which was towed back to Philly to be searched -- wasn't believed to be involved in those earlier shootings, neither was the driver who was taken into custody.
"The investigation into Saturday night's shooting and the shooting on 3100 Kensington Avenue also remains active and ongoing," police wrote. "Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the vehicle or its occupants is asked to call the Shooting Investigation Unit at 215-686-8270 or dial 911."
No charges were filed as of Thursday morning.
Originally, Evesham police feared there could have been a second person who fled from the car. They continued to search overnight, but were unable to "corroborate the existence of a second suspect," Evesahm Township Police Chief Walt Miller wrote on Facebook.
"There is no present threat to the public in connection with this incident," Miller wrote early Thursday.
No injuries were reported during the at times high-speed chase through two states.
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