2nd Freeway Shooting Incident Is Investigated

Alhambra police are seeking witnesses to a shooting on the San Bernardino Freeway on Sunday after a dispute between two motorists on a freeway on-ramp.

The 3:15 p.m. shooting injured Giang Nan, 19, of Los Angeles. Police said Nan was at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center awaiting a decision by physicians over whether to remove the bullet lodged in his arm or leave it.

A freeway shooting in Santa Fe Springs left an Orange County man dead Saturday night, but police said the two incidents do not appear to be connected.

Alhambra Police Detective Jim Varga said Sunday’s shooting occurred after two cars approached the New Avenue freeway on-ramp in Alhambra at about the same time, and the drivers “began jockeying for position to see who would get on first.”

Once on the freeway, occupants of both cars threw paper cups and other items at each other, and the other driver tried to prevent Nan from changing lanes, Varga said. When Nan headed for the Atlantic Boulevard exit, the gunman opened fire, striking Nan in the arm. Two passengers in Nan’s vehicle escaped injury.

Varga said three or more passengers who were in the gunman’s car were witnesses to the shooting and are required by law to step forward. “If they don’t come forward, they can be charged too,” he said.

The gunman’s vehicle was described by witnesses as a large, late-model sedan, probably a dark blue Ford LTD Crown Victoria LX. The gunman is believed to be a Filipino or Asian, aged 20 to 30, riding with one or more men and two or more women, all Filipinos or Asians between the ages of 20 and 30. Varga asked that witnesses call Alhambra police at (818) 570-5168.

In Saturday night’s incident, a tailgater shot and killed a passenger in a slower car on the Santa Ana Freeway near Carmenita Road. Sheriff’s homicide detectives have asked the public’s help in finding a 1980-82 yellow Toyota driven by a dark-haired man with a mustache.