A Southern California teacher inadvertently ended up on the phone with a carjacking suspect right as he was leading police on a high-speed chase across several counties.

The dangerous chase unfolded on Friday and lasted over an hour.

Benjamin Gonzalez, who made his initial court appearance on Wednesday, has been charged in connection to the pursuit in which he was seen carjacking a man for his pickup truck and shooting at officers multiple times. That pickup truck belonged to Josh Ross, the boyfriend of Ananda Mallory.