A man led police on a chase after a shooting Saturday at a Garden Grove residence left another man in critical condition, officials said.

Garden Grove police officers found a man with a gunshot wound to the head in a bedroom at the 5300 block of Santa Barbara Avenue just before 3 a.m.

The man, whose name was not released by authorities, was hospitalized in critical condition Saturday evening. It was not immediately clear whose residence the victim was found in.

After investigators spoke with witnesses at the residence, Ali Samoodi, 51, Anaheim, was identified as a suspect. Detectives believe Samoodi and the victim were in a relationship.

Samoodi rented a U-Haul and fled the scene after the shooting, a news release from the Garden Grove Police Department said.

The vehicle was tracked to Menifee where police attempted to make a traffic stop, but a pursuit ensued. The high-speed pursuit lasted about 33 miles and stopped in the area of the 10 Freeway and Cedar Avenue in the Bloomington area after Samoodi’s U-Haul was involved in multiple collisions and no longer worked.

Riverside County Sheriff’s Department SWAT officers took Samoodi into custody after he barricaded himself and refused to come out, police said. He was taken to the Garden Grove Police Department, which booked him into the Orange County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder.

The investigation was ongoing.

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