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CHP shuts down 15 Freeway due to car-to-car shooting investigation

FILE - A California Highway Patrol officer stops a motorist in Anaheim, Calif., April 23, 2020. State authorities were investigating Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, after a California Highway Patrol officer shot and killed a man on a Los Angeles area freeway during a struggle over the weekend that was recorded on video. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

CHP investigators are looking into what led up to a shooting on the 15 Freeway in Hesperia early Wednesday morning. 

According to a CHP spokesperson, a call regarding the car-to-car shooting came in around 2 a.m. near the Ranchero Road exit. 


At least two people were shot, CHP confirmed to KTLA.

“Preliminary information indicates that…a red sedan fired gunshots into a gray SUV, striking two of its four occupants,” CHP said.

Both victims were transported to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening wounds. Neither of them have been identified.

In addition to the northbound span of the affected stretch of freeway, the Oak Hill interchange was shut down due to the investigation. The Ranchero Road on-ramp was also closed, according to CHP’s Inland Communications Center

Officers began opening up all lanes of the northbound 15 Freeway just before 9 a.m., a CHP spokesperson said. The southbound lanes of the 15 were not affected, the spokesperson added.

No arrests were immediately made, and no suspect description was released.

Nancy Fontan contributed to this report.