Stolen Lamborghini Huracan Splits in Two After 113 mph LAPD Chase Kills Elliott Dugan in Reseda

A 2019 Lamborghini Huracan worth about $250,000 sat at a red light at Sherman Way and Reseda Boulevard around 5 a.m. on April 6, 2024. Los Angeles Police Department West Valley officers rolled up beside it and saw the driver slumped as if he were asleep. Three minutes later the supercar was in two pieces, trees along the median were down, and Elliott Dugan, 51, was dead on a sidewalk a few hundred feet from the wreck.

Body-camera video released by the department shows the stop in the 18500 block of Sherman Way. Officers asked Dugan for identification. He said the car was a rental. A records check returned a stolen-vehicle hit on the Huracan and multiple outstanding felony warrants on Dugan. They ordered him out. He argued that they had not given him a reason. When an officer told him he was being detained, he put the car in gear and ran west on Sherman Way.

One hundred thirteen miles an hour on a Valley arterial

The pursuit was not a long San Fernando Valley epic. Investigators later put the top speed at about 113 mph. A few blocks west, near Vanalden Avenue, Dugan lost the car. The Huracan hit the center median hard enough to tear into two main sections, rip out trees, and throw him from the cabin. Axon timestamps on the released footage put first contact around 5:08 a.m. and wreckage on Sherman Way by 5:11 a.m.

Officers arriving seconds later found a burned, mangled core and metal thrown into parked cars along Sherman Way, some of it punched through roofs and windows. Trees on the median were uprooted. No bystanders were listed as injured. Dugan’s body landed on a sidewalk by an apartment building. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.

A collision file and a pursuit file that never became a public ending

The LAPD Multi-Disciplinary Collision Investigation Team took the wreck. Because an LAPD chase ended in a death, the department also opened a separate review of whether officers followed pursuit policy. Capt. Kelly Muniz said that review would take months and that Traffic Group detectives wanted any additional witnesses. KABC-TV published the department video, and the official package also sits on the Los Angeles Police Department YouTube channel.

Through 2025 and into 2026, the public record on the crash stayed thin: the video, the 113 mph finding, the stolen-car hit, the warrants, and the fact that the driver died at the scene. The department did not roll out a widely reported finding that the pursuit violated policy, and it did not announce a finding that cleared every decision either. That silence is its own kind of document. Los Angeles has rewritten chase rules more than once after bystanders died. This file is the other kind of case – a wanted driver in a stolen supercar, a short burst of speed on a wide Valley street, no listed civilian casualties – and those files often disappear into internal review without a press conference.

Valley arterials at dawn are wide, fast, and full of people who did not consent to a supercar test. Sherman Way is lined with apartments, small lots, and cars that belong to people getting ready for a shift. A 113 mph run on that pavement is not a victimless stunt even when the official injury list is empty. Parked vehicles took metal through glass. Trees came out of the median. An apartment sidewalk became a death scene. The fact that no resident was listed as hurt is luck, not design. LAPD pursuit policy exists because other chases on other streets have killed people who never stole anything.

The AEGIS Alliance files high-speed deaths under crime news and under police accountability news, because the question is not only who stole the car. It is how the chase was run, who reviews it, and whether anyone outside the department ever sees the conclusion. Similar questions sit in other force-and-flight files, including coverage of officers who put a surfer in a chokehold over a beach pass and of drivers who turn a traffic stop into a wreck. Anyone with more information on the Sherman Way crash was asked to contact LAPD Traffic Group detectives.

Dugan is not a pending defendant. He is a closed medical examiner file attached to a car that no longer has a middle. The parked cars on Sherman Way took the shrapnel. The policy review, if it was finished, has not been handed to the public in any form that changed the official story. That is where the case sits: a sleeping driver, a stolen Lamborghini, 113 mph, and three minutes that the city recorded and then mostly stopped talking about.

Stolen performance cars make for easy video and lazy lessons. The useful lesson is narrower. A wanted man in a reported-stolen Huracan is exactly the profile departments use to justify a chase. It is also the profile that produces a wreck before the second radio update is finished. If the Multi-Disciplinary Collision Investigation Team reconstructed speed, trajectory, and ejection distance, that work belongs in a public summary, not only in a vault of body-cam clips. Residents who found car parts in their sheet metal are entitled to more than a May 2024 press dump. Until Traffic Group or another civilian-facing office says what the pursuit review found, the official story ends where the chassis split – which is convenient for everyone except the people who live on Sherman Way and woke up to yellow tape.

On camera Dugan said he had been at “my lady’s house.” That line does not explain the warrants, the stolen-vehicle return, or the decision to floor a Huracan on Sherman Way. It does explain why the stop looked ordinary until it was not. Officers found a man asleep at a light and left with a fatality investigation. The distance between those two facts is three minutes and 113 mph. That is the whole case the public has been given.