A suspect wanted for shooting a woman to death in Carlsbad, in San Diego County, during a carjacking got into a shootout with pursuing officers in Laguna Hills, in Orange County, and was fatally wounded Saturday.

The chain of events started at 9:53 p.m. Friday when Carlsbad police officers responded to a report of gunfire in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 2300 block of Rising Glen Way, according to a Carlsbad Police Department statement.

The arriving officers found a woman suffering from gunshot wounds who was unresponsive. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The woman’s vehicle was taken during the shooting, police said.

“The relationship between the victim and suspect is not known,” according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

At 12:18 a.m. Saturday, the La

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