A person was run over and killed by a motorist Saturday afternoon in what Whittier police consider stemmed from an earlier street rage incident.
Officers found a physique mendacity on the road close to the intersection of Cullen Avenue and Parise Drive about 3:10 p.m., authorities mentioned. The unidentified man had been fatally hit by a driver who remained on the scene.
The motive force, Jeffrey Flores, 29, of Fontana, was taken into custody and booked on suspicion of murder, police mentioned.
Preliminary findings point out the incident was a case of street rage, police mentioned in a information launch. Each the sufferer and the suspect had been driving alongside Colima Highway when a confrontation occurred, authorities mentioned.
“In some unspecified time in the future, the sufferer displayed a handgun and was adopted by the suspect,” police mentioned within the information launch. “The sufferer later exited his automobile to confront the suspect, at which era he was struck by the suspect’s automobile. A handgun was positioned contained in the sufferer’s automobile.”
The investigation is ongoing.
