Freeway shooter struck 3 vehicles on Interstate 80 and I-5 in Sacramento, injuring 2
An unknown shooter opened fire on at least three vehicles driving on Sacramento-area freeways Monday night, injuring two people over roughly a half-hour span, California Highway Patrol officials said.
Two drivers were transported to hospitals with gunshot wounds not considered life-threatening, and one other victim was uninjured but sustained bullet damage to his vehicle, CHP North Sacramento spokesman Officer A.J. McTaggart said.
No arrests have been made, and witnesses described the suspect vehicle only as a black or dark-colored sedan, according to McTaggart.
CHP received reports of the first freeway shooting, from the uninjured driver heading westbound Interstate 80 near Watt Avenue, about 9:45 p.m., McTaggart said.
One freeway exit later on westbound I-80 at Longview Drive, CHP officers responded to a 55-year-old woman who had been shot and injured in a car-to-car shooting, according to McTaggart. About 10 minutes after that, a 20-year-old man called 911 to report he’d been shot while heading north on Interstate 5 near Del Paso Road in Natomas. Both of those victims hospitalized.
The shootings took place between about 9:45 p.m. and 10:15 p.m., McTaggart said.
Investigators have not yet determined a motive or whether the shootings were targeted or random, according to McTaggart. It was unknown whether the victims had any connection.
The impacted stretches of I-80 and I-5 in North Sacramento were closed for about three hours as authorities responded, reopening around 1 a.m. The investigation remains ongoing.
According to McTaggart, car-to-car shootings are rarer on freeways than on surface streets in the Sacramento area. In March, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 20-year-old suspect following a deadly car-to-car shooting that occurred near Sunrise Boulevard and Highway 50 in Rancho Cordova.
This story was originally published June 16, 2020 at 12:21 PM.
