Deadly LA road-rage shooting on 5 Freeway in Boyle Heights; search for suspects continues
Search continues for freeway shooting suspects
An investigation is continuing Friday of a fatal car-to-car, road rage shooting that killed one man and left another man wounded on the 5 Freeway in the Boyle Heights area, which triggered a freeway closure that snarled traffic during the Thursday evening rush hour.
LOS ANGELES - An apparent road-rage incident led to a deadly shooting, multiple chain-reaction car crashes, which caused the 5 Freeway to be shut down for at least seven hours in Los Angeles.
According to the California Highway Patrol, the alleged road-rage incident happened between a gold Cadillac and a group of alleged gunmen on surface streets on Thursday, October 10. The feud then continued onto the 5 Freeway in Boyle Heights.
The gold Cadillac ended up rear-ending a car that had nothing to do with the alleged road-rage incident.
After the Cadillac crashed, the suspects got out of a Dodge Durango and started shooting at the people inside the Cadillac, CHP said.
The shooting happened on the northbound lanes of the 5 near Grande Vista Avenue around 4:10 p.m.
"You have vehicles stopped in traffic at four or five o’clock in the afternoon on a major artery with people getting out and walking up on a car and shooting other people. It’s just detrimental to public safety," said CHP Lt. Bob Purvis during a press conference on the incident Thursday night.
CHP said the driver of the Cadillac was able to make a U-turn against traffic and ended up crashing with other cars that also had nothing to do with neither the shooting or the alleged road-rage incident.
The driver of the Cadillac was taken to the hospital. The passenger in the Cadillac died at the scene.
"The driver of the Durango fled the scene. We believe it’s two Hispanic male adults," said Lt. Purvis.
The shooting ended up shutting down the northbound lanes of the 5 Freeway.
SkyFOX was over the aftermath of the shooting around 5 p.m. near South Grande Vista Avenue in Boyle Heights.
Officials believe up to three suspects are on the run. As of Friday night, descriptions of the shooting suspects have not been released by law enforcement officials.
The victim has not been identified.
All lanes of the freeway reopened Friday morning.
"Hopefully they catch them soon because we don’t know what their intentions are, to hurt more people or not," said area resident Jessica Satelo.
Anyone with information or dash-cam video that may have captured the incident on the 5 Freeway is urged to contact California Highway Patrol Traffic Management Center at 323-259-3200.
FOX 11's Mario Ramirez contributed to this report.