Crime & Safety
CHP Makes Arrest in 163 Freeway Shooting
A college student was injured in the shootings.
The California Highway Patrol has arrested a suspect in the Route 163 freeway shooting earlier this month that injured a college student but missed a Rancho Bernardo man.
The name of the suspect has not yet been released, but a press conference has been scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday, the CHP said in a news release.
The shooting, in the 7 a.m. hour on Tuesday, April 5 on southbound Route 163 near Balboa Avenue, left a 21-year-old University of San Diego student with a bullet wound to her rib area. She was taken to the hospital and given a good prognosis. Later, a 42-year-old Rancho Bernardo man who had been traveling in the same area around the same time discovered that his vehicle had a bullet hole. He was not injured.
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