An 8-year-old boy was shot and injured Friday evening on Interstate 580 near Downtown Oakland after a gunbattle, according to authorities.
The boy was taken to Highland Hospital, where he remains in "grave" condition, authorities added.
The shooting involved two vehicles at around 6:20 p.m. on the eastbound side of I-580 near Harrison Street in Oakland. In the immediate aftermath, authorities received multiple calls describing the shooting.
"One of the callers advised that an unrelated vehicle had pulled to the right shoulder near Grand Avenue after being struck by the gunfire," the CHP stated in a press release. "An 8-year-old boy was seated in the vehicle and struck by a bullet that came from one of the two vehicles."
The Bay Area’s Alameda County, which includes Oakland, had the most deadly highway shootings of any county in California between January 2020 and April 2023, with 11 killed in freeway shooting incidents during that period, according to California Highway Patrol data analyzed by The Standard.