May 4, 2008 1:27 pm US/Pacific
Cops Say Wrong-Way Drunk Driver Is Also Shot Twice
LOS ANGELES
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Police say a man who was driving drunk, the wrong way on the 110 Freeway, crashed his car, flipped it over and then confronted another motorist who shot him twice.
CBS
And you thought you were having a tough day? Police say a drunken man, who had driven the wrong way down the elevated carpool lanes on the Harbor (110) Freeway, before flipping his car over, was then shot, twice, by another motorist he got into a fight with.
The man is in the hospital after the early Sunday morning incident, according to authorities.
The 26-year-old Gardena man took two gunshot wounds to his shoulder,
said Los Angeles police spokeperson Norma Eisenman. He was treated at a hospital and then arrested for DUI.
According to Eisenman, the motorist was south in the northbound freeway's elevated carpool lanes when his car flipped over. He was able to get out of his1990 Nissan on the two-mile-long viaduct, and walked down the ramp for help, according to the CHP.
He flagged down a vehicle with three occupants, asking them for assistance. When they refused, he reached into the vehicle in an attempt to punch one of them, she said.
Police say that's when one of the occupants of the car shot the man twice in the shoulder.
The shooting, on the northbound freeway just north of the Slauson Avenue, was reported to the CHP yesterday about 8:50 a.m.
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