As the number of freeway shootings are dipping in LA and across California, the Bay Area is unfortunately bucking that trend. Freeway shootings in the nine Bay Area counties have gone up since 2021. BrooksKTVU and ljfernandez
in Livermore in February 2022, and another freeway shooting on Interstate 205 near Lathrop that same day. were charged in December 2022, following the tragic death of 2-year-old Jasper Wu on an Oakland freeway in 2021. The shooter who killed David Nguyen is not behind bars. were driving along Interstate 580 from Oakland to Pleasanton to see their chiropractor when bullets struck their windshield, shattering it.
"What we see is a trend that the CHP has been reporting for a couple of years now where we see the majority of the shootings in the Bay Area," Woods said. "And that might be the opposite of intuitive, particularly in regard to their stereotypical notions of gang warfare and Southern California.
Crandall mentioned those cities in particular because ballistics results, including bullets, shells and casings, are found in those cities and then linked to people with guns there. And some experts also noted that LA freeways are so congested, shooters likely stay off the highways when they want to seek revenge.
"We need to prevent these situations from happening, not react to them," she said. "And unfortunately, my brother has passed. Jasper Wu has passed. A lot of other people have passed in these senseless crimes and a lot of them are unsolved. And we need to figure out ways to deter and hold people accountable."David Nguyen immigrated to the Bay Are from Vietnam with nothing.
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