Former Chicago Luxury Car Dealer Dead After LA Police Chase

A driver who led Los Angeles police on a more than three-hour low-speed chase in a Bentley before shooting himself to death thismorning has been identified as a former Chicago-area resident, Mustafa Mustafa, who once rented out luxury cars in the Loop for as much as $3,500 a day,authorities said.

Mustafa"Moe" Mustafa, believed to have been in his late 20s. Mustafa grew up in Chicago's southwest suburbs and he owned a condominium in the SouthLoop, according to family members and public records.

Mustafa shot himself after more than a dozen police cruiserssurrounded his white Bentley near Universal City, police sources said. He was taken to a local hospital, where he later died, according tothe Los Angeles County coroner's office."It appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot," said one police source,who said Mustafa was distraught over the loss of his business.
Mustafa had once operated luxury car rentals in the Loop and in Las Vegas.A family member said, however, that a dispute with a longtime girlfriend who lives in California sparked the incident. Mustafa had recently moved to California to be with the woman, said the familymember, who did not want to be identified.Police sources said Mustafa was suspected of assault with a deadlyweapon on his girlfriend.
They also suspected from the start of thechase that he was armed.The chase began shortly before 8 p.m. Monday, Los Angeles police Officer Karen Smith said.
Driving less than 40 mph, the man behind the wheel of the$100,000-plus car began leading officers southbound on U.S. 101 through Hollywood, and kept heading south on different freeways nearlyto the coast, then headed back north before stopping on Lankershim Boulevard near a well-lit Toyota dealership.
When Mustafa stopped, an unknown woman walked up to the car, spoke to him and then walked away. The car's trunk then popped open, making it difficult for officers behind the vehicle to have a clear view of him.
Police stood close by with weapons drawn, but did not move in. Officer Karen Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department said Mustafa was "despondent, allegedly armed," and potentially suicidal.
Media and onlookers at the scene were cordoned off by police and California Highway Patrol officers. Then SWAT officers approached with guns pulled. They broke the passenger window with a crowbar, and opened the door.
Minutes later, an ambulance arrived, and Mustafa was pulled from the car, put on a gurney and taken away. A source later told the Times that the man had shot himself.
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