New network of Bay Area car-tracking cameras helps arrest alleged road rage shooter

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is hailing the July 1 arrest of a San Pablo man, who allegedly shot into another car during a road rage incident, as its first to be aided by a new network of hundreds of cameras around Oakland and the East Bay.

“The CHP is excited to have this new technology located on freeways in the Bay Area,” said CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee. “Our investigators will utilize this technology to identify and apprehend those who engage in criminal activity and put California’s motorists at risk.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced in April that the CHP had contracted with Flock Safety, a Georgia-based crime safety tech company, to install a network of 480 of the company’s cameras around Oakland and the East Bay. About 290 were expected to be set up on Oakland’s surface streets and 190 along the East Bay’s state highways.

Around 6:40 a.m. on July 1, officers responded to a CHP call that a freeway shooting had happened just west of the Treasure Island on-ramp on westbound I-80. The victim wasn’t hit with a bullet but was cut by glass flying inside the vehicle. He later received medical care and told detectives the shooting happened after a merging conflict on the Treasure Island on-ramp and gave a description of the alleged shooter’s vehicle, according to the California Highway Patrol’s Golden Gate Division.

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