Traffic violence suspect shoots and kills man on Highway 5 in Boyle Heights

LOS ANGELES – The search continues for suspects in a fatal car-on-car shooting on Highway 5 in Boyle Heights.

“We were a few cars behind, but I was scared. I was scared,” a witness told FOX 11.

It’s Thursday afternoon, around 4pm, October 10th.

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This man says he and his boss were heading back to his office heading north on I-5 near Soto when they suddenly noticed a car driving the wrong way on the highway.

Soon all hell broke loose.

“I’m guessing he was trying to get away, so he started going, you know, against traffic.”

The Dashcam video obtained by FOX 11 has a timestamp indicating a different date and time of the road rage incident.

But what is indisputable is the violence seen in the images when three men jump out of a vehicle and an armed man, whose face was not visible, starts shooting at a car and its occupants who are desperately trying to escape.

Look closely at the footage in the right corner. We slowed down and highlighted the attack on the highway.

“My boss and I saw the guy running… we saw his hand on his waist, I think, and he had the gun away. We saw he had a gun… so when the car turns around, he opens the door…shots fired, the car starts to drive away and he keeps shooting at it and all you see is like the glass flies out of the car,” he recalled.

Our witness insisted on complete anonymity for this report. He was at the wheel. His boss was a passenger.

“We went under the steering wheel and it sank… you see? How could he run away,” he said.

Although investigators have not confirmed the authenticity of the tape or the man’s version of events, FOX 11 questioned the witness with many questions.

Each time he responded quickly and with detailed precision and emotion about what he saw that day.

“I couldn’t really see the shooter’s face because his face was covered with his shirt,” he said.

FOX 11 covered the harrowing event from the air.

According to the CHP, the incident stemmed from a road rage incident between the occupants of a gold Cadillac sedan and a dark Dodge Durango after the initial dispute.

The Cadillac rear-ended another car. The suspects exited the Durango and opened fire on the Cadillac.

The driver of the Cadillac survived, but the passenger did not.

“One of those bullets could (have hit) — not even just me — like the others, you know, the drivers of the other vehicles,” the witness said.

The manhunt continues.