Moment Dodge Durango suspect shoots Cadillac driver useless in highway rage
This is the horrifying moment a Dodge Durango driver mercilessly killed a Cadillac driver in a fit of road rage.
The Durango driver is seen running across the northbound 5 Freeway in Los Angeles, near South Lorena Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, with a weapon in hand.
The gold Cadillac is seen with its rear fender hanging off, as its driver tries undertaking a three-point turn, seemingly to drive against traffic and away from the shooter.
But before the driver can escape, the shooter fires eight bullets through the door, which was open as the car was moving.
The shooter is then seen fleeing the scene, before falling over and running into a car with several other people.
Shocking dashcam footage of the deadly incident, which left another person serious injured, showed the Dodge driver, who has not yet been identified, running on the open freeway with a weapon in hand
Police are still investigating the shock killing
Lt. Bob Purvis said following the incident, which took place last Thursday: ‘The occupants of the Dodge Durango exited and starting firing on the occupants of the gold Cadillac.
‘The gold Cadillac driver was able to make a U-turn and drive back southbound in the northbound lanes.’
The shooting caused a miles-long standstill on LA’s already-congested freeways.
Authorities were forced to close the freeway until at least Friday as they investigated.
A white sheet was seen over the gold Cadillac.
Little is known about the identities of those involved in the shooting. Cops only identified the dead man as someone in his 20s, and said they were still chasing the two suspects involved in the deadly incident.
Police have still not released a description of the killer, nor have they revealed a motivation for the killing, and have urged anyone with more information or dashcam footage to come forward.
The highway was shut down as cops investigated
A white sheet was seen thrown over the car following the deadly shooting
The gold Cadillac was seen with its rear fender hanging off, as its driver tried undertaking a three-point turn
The fatal shooting took place last Thursday at around 4pm in Los Angeles on the northbound 5 Freeway, near South Lorena Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood
It comes as much of California has been overwhelmed by crime, even as its governor Gavin Newsom unveiled plans to defund law enforcement bodies.
He proposed a budget that included a $97 million cut to trial court operations, $10 million to the Department of Justice’s Division of Law Enforcement and over $80 million to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.’
Violent crime in Los Angeles rose by 2.9 percent in the first three months of 2024, and robberies increased by 9.5 percent. Homicides increased by 28.1 percent.
Since March, the increase in homicides dropped to about 9.5 percent, with 81 murders compared with 74 during the same period in 2023.
Meanwhile homelessness jumped 6 percent to more than 180,000 people in California last year, federal data show. And since 2013, the numbers have exploded by 53 percent with the state accounting for a third of America’s entire homeless population.
The state’s criminal justice record which saw the number of violent crimes jump by 27 percent between 2013 and 2022, and pickpocketing more than double.
