A 4-year-old boy was shot to death in front of his parents in a road rage incident that led to a suspect chasing the family’s car down a California highway before opening fire, authorities said.
The deadly confrontation happened just before 7:30 p.m. Friday along Sierra Highway in the Los Angeles suburb of Lancaster.
A mother, father and their 4-year-old son were traveling along the road when another driver cut them off and then began chasing them, according to a statement from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.
“While being chased by the suspect, the victim’s driver slowed down his vehicle, and that’s when the suspect’s driver stopped on the passenger side of the victim’s car and started shooting,” said the agency.
One of the bullets fired by the road rage suspect hit the child in the upper body as he was riding in the back seat of his family’s vehicle.
A 4-year-old boy riding in the back of his parents’ car was fatally shot by a road rage suspect on the Sierra Freeway in suburban Los Angeles. A couple carrying their child was cut off by another driver, who then started chasing them.
The parents rushed the boy to the hospital, where he died.
The young victim had not been identified as of Monday pending the results of an autopsy.
“It’s unimaginable that this could be one of our families,” Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris told ABC7. “It could be one of us.”
Investigators used cameras to locate the suspect and arrested a man and a woman. The map shows the area where the road rage incident took place on Friday evening.
Investigators used a crime prevention camera system installed in the city of Lancaster recently to track a car involved in a road rage shooting, resulting in the arrest of a 29-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman in connection with the boy. death.
A suspect has not yet been identified, and there was no immediate information on what may have led to the road rage incident.
Police said no other suspects were being sought and no other injuries were reported.
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