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 down the Northbound 5 Freeway in Los Angeles, near South Lorena Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, with a gun in his hand.
The gold Cadillac is seen with its rear fender hanging off, as its driver attempts to perform a three-point turn, apparently 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 while the car was moving.
The shooter is then seen fleeing the scene, before falling and crashing into a car with several other people.
Shocking dash cam footage of the deadly incident, which left another person seriously injured, showed the driver of the Dodge, who has not yet been identified, racing down the open highway with a gun in his hand.
Police are still investigating the shock murder.
The man was seen fleeing the scene of the shooting.
Lieutenant Bob Purvis said after the incident, which took place last Thursday: ‘The occupants of the Dodge Durango got out and began shooting at the occupants of the gold Cadillac.
“The driver of the gold Cadillac was able to make a U-turn and return south in the northbound lanes.”
The shooting caused a stoppage of several kilometers on the already congested freeways of Los Angeles.
Authorities were forced to close the highway at least until Friday while they investigated.
A white sheet was seen draped over the gold Cadillac.
Little is known about the identities of those involved in the shooting. Officers only identified the dead man as someone in his 20s and said they were still pursuing the two suspects involved in the deadly incident.
Police have not yet released a description of the killer, nor revealed the motivation for the killing, and have urged anyone with more information or dashcam footage to come forward.
The road was closed while police investigated.
A white sheet is seen thrown over the car after the deadly shooting.
The gold Cadillac was seen with its rear fender hanging off, while its driver attempted to perform a three-point turn.
The fatal shooting took place last Thursday around 4 pm in Los Angeles on the northbound 5 Freeway near South Lorena Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood.
It comes at a time when much of California has been overwhelmed by crime, even as its governor Gavin Newsom revealed plans to defund law enforcement agencies.
He proposed a budget that included a $97 million cut to trial court operations, $10 million to the Justice Department’s Law Enforcement Division and more than $80 million to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. .
Violent crime in Los Angeles increased 2.9 percent in the first three months of 2024 and robberies increased 9.5 percent. Homicides increased 28.1 percent.
Since March, the increase in homicides has slowed to around 9.5 percent, with 81 murders compared to 74 during the same period in 2023.
Meanwhile, the number of homeless people rose 6 percent to more than 180,000 people in California last year, federal data show. And since 2013, numbers have skyrocketed by 53 percent, with the state accounting for one-third of the entire homeless population in the United States.
The state’s criminal justice record, in which the number of violent crimes increased 27 percent between 2013 and 2022, and pickpockets doubled.