Two men and two women in a car with an infant were arrested early Monday after an incident that began in North Bend and ended on a dead-end road following a chase down the freeway and through Issaquah.

Snoqualmie Police Officer Richard Cary was patrolling at the North Bend Premium Outlets mall at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, when he noticed a suspicious vehicle. He began following the vehicle, to monitor it, according to city of Snoqualmie spokesperson Joan Pliego, in a press release Monday morning.

The vehicle suddenly sped off toward the Interstate-90 on ramp, without any sort of signal from the police, Pliego said, and took the westbound on-ramp at high speed.

Cary pursued and called in assistance from King County’s Guardian 1 helicopter, as well as the county’s tactical (SWAT) team. When he attempted to stop the vehicle, a passenger in the front seat fired multiple rounds at the squad car.

Cary was not injured and there was no damage to the car. He continued pursuing the suspect car through downtown Issaquah. The pursuit ended near the May Valley and Issaquah-Hobart Roads on a dead-end rural residential road, with Snoqualmie Police and county law enforcement.

All four suspects were taken into custody without incident. The driver of the vehicle, a 24-year-old woman and the mother of the infant, was booked into King County Jail and faces charges of rendering criminal assistance and eluding an officer.

The passenger who shot at the police patrol car is a 20-year-old and the father of the child. He was also booked into King County Jail and will be charged with assault with a deadly weapon, drug and weapons violations and reckless endangerment of an infant.

The man and woman in the back seat, both 19, will be charged with obstruction. The man went to King County Jail and the woman, to Issaquah.

The baby, a 9-month-old boy, was put under the care of Child Protection Services and was released to his maternal grandmother Monday afternoon.

The Snoqualmie Police Department is investigating the incident, with the assistance of the Coalition Major Crimes Task Force.

For more information, contact Joan Pliego at jpliego@ci.snoqualmie.wa.us or call (425) 281-3317.