Video shows alleged thief at gas station before leading deputies on I-95 chase in Pompano Beach

New surveillance video from inside a gas station in Deerfield Beach captured the moments before a suspected thief allegedly battered a deputy and fled the scene in a vehicle.

According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the incident started on Friday, at around 11 a.m., when deputies responded to a theft at a business near the 300 block of West Hillsboro Boulevard.

A clerk at the Shell gas station told NBC6 that the suspect was eating and drinking inside the store and refused to pay.

Surveillance video from inside the gas station showed the suspect,  37-year-old Avonta Bailey, grabbing items.

“I’m scared,” the clerk said. “He tried to kill me, push me.”

The clerk then called 911.

Cellphone video from outside the store captured the tense moments when a deputy confronted Bailey.

At one point, the deputy was seen drawing his weapon at Bailey’s car as he went in reverse and fled the scene.

A chase then ensued, and deputies said they crashed on southbound Interstate 95 just north of Atlantic Boulevard.

Traffic cameras showed at least six law enforcement units and two rescue trucks at the scene. Aerial images from Chopper6 captured one vehicle overturned that came to a rest on its side, and a red SUV also appeared to be involved.

Traffic cameras showed at least six law enforcement units and two rescue trucks at the scene on I-95 at Atlantic Boulevard. NBC6’s Steve Litz reports.

Officials said the crash involved four vehicles, including a BSO vehicle, the suspect’s vehicle, and two civilians.

The incident left I-95 southbound at Atlantic Boulevard shut down for a few hours.

Bailey was eventually taken into custody, and now faces several charges, including retail theft, resisting arrest with and without violence, fleeing and eluding, aggravated fleeing, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and battery on a law enforcement officer.

This wasn’t the first time Bailey had issues with the law.

had previously been arrested in 2018 on charges including aggravated battery on an officer or firefighter, grand theft, fleeing and eluding, resisting an officer and leaving the scene of a crash involving damage to property, records showed.

The arrest came after a suspected shoplifting incident that ended with him allegedly hitting an officer with a car while fleeing a Coconut Creek Walmart.