From the tragic shooting death of a 2-year-old boy on a freeway in Oakland to an Alameda County sheriff's deputy killed by bullets near the Bay Bridge, the California Highway Patrol has been hit by a barrage of freeway shootings across the Bay Area. Here's a look at some of the freeway shootings in the Bay Area.
There were 144 freeway shootings in the Bay Area's nine counties in 2021, according to CHP documents obtained through a California Public Records request. Suspects were arrested in 11% of the cases.