Police have identified the Trenton man killed in a stolen car crash after he led Hillside police on a chase.
Yesterday, sometime around 12:30 a.m., Christopher Johnson, 29, of Trenton, refused to stop for police for traffic violations on Rt. 22 west while driving a stolen blue 2009 GMC Sierra pickup truck.
Johnson ensued a chase onto Rt. 78 where it eventually made it's way off of the highway into the area of Winans Avenue and Fabyan Place where the vehicle violently crashed into an embankment ejecting one of the suspects from the vehicle.
He was then transported to University Hospital in Newark where he immediately underwent surgery but was later pronounced dead, police said.
The passenger in the truck, was identified as Tiereka Barr, 26, of Trenton, was not injured. Barr was arrested for receiving stolen property and is being held on a warrant from Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
This incident is still under investigation.