The I-Team found the interstates with the most shootings reported in the Bay Area are I-580, I-80, I-880, I-680, and I-280. 79 shootings were reported on these freeways during the past four years.
The family of 23-month of Jasper Wu, gathered at a makeshift memorial along the SouthBound lanes of 880 in Oakland late Monday morning.
"She miss Jasper so much," said An, through her sister translating in Chinese over the phone."She doesn't want the same thing to happen to another family." The death of Jasper Wu was one of at least 215 other shootings that threatened freeway drivers across California from 2018 through March of 2022. Around 39 percent of those happened in the Bay Area.
Over the course of several months, the ABC7 News I-Team combed through Gun Violence Archive data, which tracks the number of incidents on interstates using news reports and press releases. The I-Team found the interstates with the most shootings reported are I-580, I-80, I-880, I-680, and I-280. 79 shootings were reported on these freeways during the past four years.
But it's important to reinforce that figure only captures cases that made the news. The reality of the problem is much bigger. For example, the California Highway Patrol, the agency tasked to investigate these shootings, gave the I-Team data that shows the real figure of interstate shootings across the Bay Area is six times higher when looking at 2020 and 2021.
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