A HIGH-SPEED chase that ended with US authorities killing a suspected carjacker has closed traffic into Mexico at one of San Diego's border crossings.
Three US Customs and Border Patrol agents shot and killed the driver of a car that stopped near the Otay Mesa border crossing and then began driving forward, KNSD-TV in San Diego quoted police Lt. Lee Norton as saying.
The driver, who died at the scene, had led California Highway Patrol officers on a near 160km chase.
The crossing was shut to southbound vehicle and pedestrian traffic following the 10:30am shooting. It remained open from Mexico into the US, but could be closed well into the evening going the other way, a US Customs and Border Forrest Bustamante Protection supervisor said.
The busy San Ysidro crossing nearby was unaffected.
The chase began after a suspected carjacking in the Riverside County city of Perris just after 9:30am. It reached speeds of 160km/h as the suspect drove south through San Diego County.
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