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Damn, I'm on this freeway 4~6 times a day. This is just stupid...
(04-04) 01:41 PDT Pinole -- All lanes of westbound Interstate 80 were reopened in Pinole and Richmond early this morning following the fatal shooting of a motorist, authorities said.
Richmond police and CHP officers said a female was shot multiple times and killed and a male was shot and critically injured in the attack, which began around 9:15 p.m. on I-80 in Pinole. The ages of the victims were unknown.
Authorities, including Pinole police, investigated the crime scene along a stretch of highway from Pinole to Richmond. The interstate there was closed in the westbound direction for four hours.
Police said the shots were fired from another car at the victims as they were traveling westbound between Pinole Valley Road and Appian Way, in Pinole. Their car, a late-model blue Honda, continued to Richmond, where it crashed in the fast lane. The window on the driver's side had been shot out.
The car was carrying four to five people at the time but there were no other injuries, said CHP spokesman Sam Morgan.
"We're trying to determine whether this is road rage or whether the victims were known" to the assailants, Morgan said.
No one has been arrested. The critically injured victim was flown by CHP helicopter to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.
It appeared the suspect vehicle was abandoned at the scene.
The attack was the second shooting on the same stretch of I-80 in less than three days. On Tuesday morning, a westbound motorist was shot and seriously injured by another motorist who pulled alongside him in the westbound lanes of I-80 at Hilltop Drive in what police said was a targeted attack.
E-mail Suzanne Espinosa Solis at sespinosa@sfchronicle.com
Richmond police and CHP officers said a female was shot multiple times and killed and a male was shot and critically injured in the attack, which began around 9:15 p.m. on I-80 in Pinole. The ages of the victims were unknown.
Authorities, including Pinole police, investigated the crime scene along a stretch of highway from Pinole to Richmond. The interstate there was closed in the westbound direction for four hours.
Police said the shots were fired from another car at the victims as they were traveling westbound between Pinole Valley Road and Appian Way, in Pinole. Their car, a late-model blue Honda, continued to Richmond, where it crashed in the fast lane. The window on the driver's side had been shot out.
The car was carrying four to five people at the time but there were no other injuries, said CHP spokesman Sam Morgan.
"We're trying to determine whether this is road rage or whether the victims were known" to the assailants, Morgan said.
No one has been arrested. The critically injured victim was flown by CHP helicopter to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.
It appeared the suspect vehicle was abandoned at the scene.
The attack was the second shooting on the same stretch of I-80 in less than three days. On Tuesday morning, a westbound motorist was shot and seriously injured by another motorist who pulled alongside him in the westbound lanes of I-80 at Hilltop Drive in what police said was a targeted attack.
E-mail Suzanne Espinosa Solis at sespinosa@sfchronicle.com
. If SHTF in our neighborhood, I feel sorry for anyone who tries to be stupid.
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