CHP Examine Hwy 24 Freeway Taking pictures in Walnut Creek – CBS San Francisco
WALNUT CREEK (CBS SF) – East Bay CHP officials are investigating a freeway shootout on Highway 24 in Walnut Creek on Wednesday that authorities said injured a woman driver.
A Facebook post from the CHP Contra Costa County office stated that at around 3:35 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, a CHP engine unit at an enforcement stop on Pleasant Hill Road north of Highway 24 in Lafayette was contacted by a black driver on Chevy Malibu who stopped to report that she was the victim of a highway shooting.
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Walnut Creek Freeway Shooting Investigation (CBS)
The woman said she sustained a gunshot wound on her leg and asked for medical help. She informed the officer that the confrontation involved a woman driving a Chrysler 300 sedan and was on the transition ramp from I-680 south to Highway 24 west.
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The victim said the woman who drove the suspicious Chrysler vehicle had a male passenger who shot her vehicle before the suspicious vehicle escaped the area.
The victim was riding in her vehicle with two teenage passengers who were not injured. The woman was taken to John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek with a non-life threatening injury to her leg.
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Authorities said this was an active investigation in collaboration with our CHP Golden Gate Division Investigative Services Unit, which will lead the investigation.
