The court properly denied defendant's suppression motion.
Even if the police actions in seeking to stop defendant were initially unlawful, any illegality was attenuated by defendant's independent, calculated acts of picking up the pistol he had dropped in his flight, aiming it at one of the officers and firing two shots (see People v Townes,
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