Car ramming and gunfire leads to arrest

In a scene straight from a movie, two cars chased and rammed each other all over Spokane while the occupants exchanged gunfire recently.

A woman told police she asked four friends to help her retrieve her belongings from her boyfriend’s home in the 700 block of North Crestline on Dec. 8. She said she arrived before her friends did and she and her boyfriend began arguing, according to court documents.

The woman said she was afraid for her life based on her boyfriend’s previous behavior and texted her friends saying, “Come get me he’s going to kill me,” court documents said. She said when her friends arrived, one was armed with a rifle, one had a handgun and another had a wooden stick.

The woman left the room with a female friend to get her belongings, and the three armed men forced her boyfriend into a chair and demanded to know where his valuables were kept.

The boyfriend said one of the men, identified as Daniel H. Hill, struck him several times with the wooden stick, breaking both the stick and the boyfriend’s arm.

“Now you know how it feels when you hit her,” Hill said, according to the woman. She said when she came back into the room, Hill was standing over her boyfriend, according to court documents.

When Hill and his friends left the home in a Chevy Blazer, the boyfriend got in his car and gave chase. The vehicles rammed each other several times and witnesses said people inside both vehicles were firing guns at each other, according to court documents.

Hill is being held in the Spokane County Jail on $100,000 bond on charges of first-degree robbery and first-degree burglary. Court documents don’t indicate whether any of the others involved have been arrested or are being sought by police.