A police chase involving a man on an electric scooter ended in a fatal crash Monday in downtown San Francisco, leaving a toppled scooter, a backpack and a shattered scene at a bus stop shelter. The crash happened at the corner of Mission and Eighth streets. According to San Francisco police, offi cers attempted to serve an arrest warrant before the man raced away on an electric scooter, triggering a police pursuit. One witness, who asked to remain anonymous, described how the chase ended in Spanish, explaining that the man fell off the scooter and hit the bus shelter head-first. “Se bajo del scooter porque se kaio pegado en la parada esta de la ocho con su cabeza,” the witness said. A police officer who was running after the man also tripped during the pursuit, though the officer did not appear to suffer any serious injuries. Another witness, Maurice Navarro, described a disturbing scene as emergency crews attempted to save the man. “When I got here we had a CPR machine on the dude’s chest, limp body. Blood, hella blood all over the scene,” Navarro said. According to the witness who saw the end of the chase, the officers running after the man did not catch up to him until after he fell off and slammed into the bus stop. Police said the man was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The department has not released any details regarding the arrest warrant they were attempting to serve. Traffic on Mission Street remained closed for hours as investigators collected evidence and worked to piece together the sequence of events. ...read more read less