n last nights highway 4 shooting was the latest in what has been a series of bay area highway shootings in the past year. Most of those shootings happening in the east bay. Heres what we know about the cases. n saturdays highway 4 shooting is at least the third bay area freeway shooting of the year. It comes less than a month after a highway 242 shooting in concord that left a man hurt and a black mercedes riddled with bullets. And less than a month after an i80 shooting near carlson boulevard in richmond. Three shootings may sound like a high number but it certainly doesnt compare to what we saw last year. From novemeber of 2015 to the end of 2016 there were more than thirty bay area freeway shootings. The highest number of shootings happened on the i80 coordior but branched onto other freeways throughout the area. Almost all of these past shootings have been labeled gang related. Last year Law Enforcement credited the reduction in shootings to a multi county gang bust that put two do
n our other big story tonight. Another shooting on a busy east bay highway. One man was killed during last nights shooting on highway four in antioch. Kron 4s Hermela Aregawi is in antioch. Wth details about this latest case. Just minutes afte 9 saturday night. A man is shot dead while driving on hwy 4 east bound. When chp arrived on the scene. They found the victim had succumbed to his injuries. This is one of several shooting on hwy 4 in the past year. Sot damorio thompson, concerned resident i think this freeway shooting thing. Its just terrible. I just dont understand it. I think its a bunch of young people that just dont know how to act. Get guns and just actually self destruct. The shootings are making residents question their safety. Sot damorio thompson, concerned resident my family stays right up the street from there so im concerned about my family. I tell them to be careful. My dad goes to work in and out of here every day. I just dont want anything bad to happen to anybody
California will move southeastward over the bay area and Central Coast very late tonight and monday morning. Many locations will not see wet weather due to the more widely spaced weak convective type of precipitation associated with this frontal system, but locations that do see wet weather will generally have light amounts perhaps upwards of a tenth of an inch. Snow showers are likely over the higher elevations. Dry weather conditions then return for the remainder of the workweek along with a gradual warming trend as High Pressure builds aloft. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 a gunman is on the loose this morning. This after another shooting on a busy east bay highway. One man died after the shooting on highway four in antioch. Kron fours Hermela Aregawi spok