A police manhunt through the suburbs of Los Angeles involving a man in his boxer shorts ended with the shooting of a rockstar’s wife in her front garden.

The chase was triggered by a hit-and-run on a highway, which was filmed from a helicopter by local television networks.

A brother and sister who witnessed the crash chased after one of the injured suspects as he climbed over an embankment and raced through the Eagle Rock neighbourhood.

The man tried to blend into the neighbourhood by stripping down to his boxers, jumping into the swimming pool of a residential home and innocuously watering garden plants during the hour-and-a-half long pursuit.

The chase took an even more unusual turn when officers who had been scrambling to apprehend the suspect on Eagle Vista Drive, found the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner holding a handgun in her front garden next door.