FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno police have released body camera, dash camera, and security footage of an August 20 incident in which an officer struck an armed suspect with a patrol car during a foot chase near the River Park Shopping Center.

Police say the suspect, 18-year-old George Ruiz, fired a gun at a passing vehicle in a restaurant parking lot at N. Blackstone and E. El Paso avenues around 5:30 p.m. No one in the vehicle was injured.

An officer on an unrelated call in the River Park area heard the gunfire and ran toward it.

As he arrived, he saw Ruiz run across Blackstone Avenue and followed him, witnessing Ruiz attempt to carjack a vehicle.

The driver escaped, and Ruiz continued running toward the Sam's Club parking lot.

Additional officers arrived in a patrol car and spotte

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