A 5-year-old California girl was killed in a weekend shooting on a highway in the San Francisco Bay Area, authorities said Sunday.
The shooting happened at about 7 p.m. Saturday on Interstate 880 near Milpitas, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Responding officers found a vehicle on southbound I-880 in Fremont. The parents in the car said their daughter was struck by gunfire.
The girl, who the county coroner later identified as Eliyanah Crisostomo, was taken to a local hospital where she died, the station reported.
The entire highway was closed during the investigation, but some lanes reopened after about an hour.
Authorities were also investigating a separate shooting around 6:30 p.m. Saturday in nearby Fremont. Three suspects were later arrested after a chase in connection with the Fremont shooting, and a gun was recovered, according to the Santa Cruz Police Department.
“The vehicle did not yield, and a pursuit was initiated,” Santa Cruz police said in a statement . “During the pursuit on Hwy 17, officers observed the vehicle’s occupants discarding a firearm from the car. The suspect driver stopped a short distance later.”
Investigators were trying to determine if the two shootings were connected.
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