An unarmed man was shot and killed by a uniformed NYPD officer after an eight-mile car chase through the Bronx and Westchester County ended in the woods around Yonkers, off the Saw Mill River Parkway.

The man who was killed was identified as 26-year-old Miguel Espinal, the New York Times reports. He was apparently unarmed. “No weapon has been recovered,” chief NYPD spokesman Stephen Davis said.

The specific circumstances leading to shooting are under investigation, but Pix 11 reports that the chase began around noon, in the Bronx, near 242nd street. Per the Times, police tried to pull over gray 2009 Nissan Z after they saw it driving erratically, but the car sped off north up the Henry Hudson Parkway toward Yonkers:

While traveling on Saw Mill River Parkway, the suspect pulled a 180-degree turn and drove south in the northbound lane, colliding with several civilian vehicles.

Police grabbed one of the two people in the car at the scene, but “a second suspect climbed out of the window of the vehicle fled over the guard rail into the woods of Tibbets Brook Park,” according to George Longworth, of the Westchester Department of Public Safety. “One shot was discharged from one of the New York City police officers weapon, killing a second suspect in the wooded area. He was pronounced dead at the scene.”

A second man, 25-year-old Akeem Smith, 25, was injured in the crash and taken to a hospital, in police custody, with minor injuries. Smith is on federal probation on a drug charge, the Times reports. “He was a mule,” his lawyer, Richard B. Lind, said.

The officers involved in the chase were identified as Garthlette James and Romeo Francis. It is not clear who fired the fatal shot, but officials said neither have been involved in a shooting while on duty before.

In March, the Times reports, a Suffolk County man fired a federal civil rights suit alleging that Officer Francis and several other officers used excessive force during an arrest in Queens. The charges in that arrest were dismissed.

Initial accounts suggested that there was a third suspect still at large, according to DNAinfo, but Yonkers police said that no one else was being sought.

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