The suspected shooter remains at large. Officers are looking for a white sedan.
A 6-year-old boy died Friday after being shot on a Southern California highway in a suspected road rage incident, authorities said.
The incident happened around 8 a.m., while the child’s mother was driving a Chevrolet silver sedan northbound along the 55 Freeway in Orange, California Highway Patrol said.
The boy was sitting in a booster seat in the right rear passenger seat when he was shot during “some type of road rage incident,” California Highway Patrol Officer Florentino Olivera said during a press briefing. He did not know how many shots were fired. The mother was not hurt, he said.
The child was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. His name has not been disclosed.
The suspected shooter remains at large and officers are looking for a white sedan, Olivera said.
Highway patrol officers are asking the public for help, including anyone driving on the freeway this morning between 7:55 a.m. and 8:15 a.m.
“If your vehicle has a dashcam, we’re asking you, please call our CHP office in Santa Ana, provide that video,” Olivera said. “If you were driving by, you saw something that was not right, call it in — even if it wasn’t something major — call our office. We want to hear from witnesses.”
At least 80 incidents of cars being shot at while traveling on Southern California freeways have been reported since late April, ABC News Los Angeles station KABC reported on Thursday. Most were during the morning commute and there were no significant injuries, the station reported.
Friday’s deadly shooting is isolated and unrelated to recent window-shattering incidents along Southern California freeways, Olivera said.
ABC News’ Sarah Hermina contributed to this report.
