FREMONT, Calif. - A 5-year-old girl was shot to death on Interstate 880 Saturday evening while she was riding in the car with her parents on the way out to a family birthday dinner, according to family friends and the California Highway Patrol.Family friends identified the girl as Eliyanah.
At the request of her family and police, her last name is being kept confidential. The CHP said they got a call at 6:40 p.m.
Saturday about a possible shooting on southbound 880 in Fremont, near the Dixon Landing Road exit. Police believe the ordeal may have started in Fremont with another shooting.
Family friends said that as they were in the car, a bullet struck Eliyanah and she died within 30 seconds.Late Sunday, police in Santa Cruz posted on Facebook that they arrested three people "associated with possibly two shootings" in Fremont and the Bay Area – one of them involved the death of a child.Police followed that car onto Highway 17, but the driver didn't stop for them and a pursuit was initiated.During the chase, police saw people in the getaway car throwing a gun out the window.The driver ended up stopping the car eventually, and police took all three people into custody.They have not been identified, but they were turned over to Fremont police.