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Kidam Oquendo, 22, of Worcester, faces nearly a dozen charges following the 6 p.m. incident, Worcester police said.
Summer Impact officers said they saw Oquendo speed past them in a white Audi on Hope Avenue, but they lost sight of the car before they could pull it over.
A few minutes later, police saw the Audi had crashed into a red Ford near the area they last saw it. Several people flagged down the officers and said the driver jumped from the wreck and ran away carrying a bookbag toward Hope Avenue, officials said.
Officers ran in the same direction and saw Oquendo sprint across Hope Avenue near the cemetery. They found him hiding near a home a few minutes later, police said.
Officers retraced their steps and found a black bookbag like the one witnesses said Oquendo was carrying when he got out of his car. They saw a loaded handgun inside with a "Glock switch," which allows it to fire like a fully-automatic weapon, police said. Authorities also found a loaded pistol magazine inside the wrecked Audi.
Police charged Oquendo with:
- Possession of a machine gun
- Possession of a large-capacity firearm
- Improper storage of a firearm
- Possession of a gun without an FID card
- Possession of ammo without an FID card
- Leave the scene of property damage
- Driving on a suspended license
- Operating to endanger and trespass.
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