This will be hard to sweep under the rug.
Posted on 05/01/2005 3:11:41 PM PDT by Travis McGee
Motorist Shot on San Diego Freeway in North Hills
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 18 year-old motorist on the San Diego (405) Freeway was shot three times today by a gunman in black Honda, police said.
A no-hits shooting occurred shortly afterward on the eastbound Foothill (210) Freeway near Hubbard Street.
The victim from the 405 went to the Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, and police said his vital signs were stable, said Los Angeles police Sgt. Jeff Hart of the Devonshire Station.
The victim, whose name police refused to make public, told police he was shot on the northbound 405 between Roscoe Boulevard and Nordhoff Street, Hart said. The wounded driver pulled off the freeway and flagged down an officer at Devonshire Street and Balboa Boulevard about 1:10 a.m., he said.
Five people were in the suspect car, the victim told police.
The car-to-car shooting was latest in a recent rash.
On April 24, a 33 year-old motorist was wounded on the northbound Costa Mesa (55) Freeway near 17th Street, near where Jake Tuason, 26, of Fontana, was fatally shot March 12.
Two other people were killed recently on the Harbor (110) Freeway in South Los Angeles.
Michael Livingston, 26, of Long Beach was shot in the head near Manchester Avenue on March 29.
On April 13, James Wiggins, 47, was shot near Redondo Beach Boulevard as he and another man were headed to a Bible study.
Ricky Smith, 32, of San Bernardino was shot to death at the 62-15-91 interchange in Riverside County on April 22.
A veteran California Highway Patrol supervisor with a background in freeway shooting investigations recently told the Daily News that the CHP and other agencies repeatedly asked Caltrans to use their traffic-monitoring cameras as crime surveillance tools.
Spot on
I'm going to try really hard...
I personally got a three day time out for backtalking to my 'betters' like that.
This will be hard to sweep under the rug.
Sure 'nuf wasn't the Welcome Wagon.
I'd hate to see this sort of thing starting up and getting common. The only way I see of dealing with it safely is a bullet proof car (for everybody).
Reading this article, the first thing I thought was illegals.
Next thing, they will be looking for that white box truck with a 50 something balding white guy in it. I can't tell you how many times my bro was stopped in and around DC.
Nothing good inside, either.
Speak for yourself, Taz... ;-)
I don't get why that baiting is condoned...
I am.
That's never stopped them from trying.
I can only speculate as to why. I do know that it is, and that those posters have a different set of rules than the rest of us.
CW2 Ping.
My condolances dude... Art least your not dating a Deluthian debutante.
S'alright. You get used to it.
Pack heat.
Kind of makes you wonder....
U.S. Constitution Article 1 Section 8 Clause 15:
"The Congress shall have Power to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
Pretty damned clear by now, isn't it...
Exactly what good will that do, when a murderous criminal sticks his pistol out of his window and caps you in the head, with .5 seconds of warning, IF that?
Not to mention, packing heat is basically illegal in Cali.
(Not that our guest criminals mind such breaking such laws with impunity.)
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