The Region : 3 Held in Slaying of Woman on Freeway

Sheriff’s deputies arrested three men suspected of robbing a Cerritos woman and then killing her by pushing her from a moving automobile into freeway traffic. Deputy Dave Hogan said Yu-Chui Lin Lee, 42, apparently stopped to ask directions of the three men a few hours before dawn on Oct. 14. One of the three, he said, is believed to have taken her car, which was later recovered in Compton, while the other two forced her into their own automobile--and pushed her out on the Long Beach Freeway in heavy traffic near Alondra Boulevard. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Evidence found in the car, Hogan said, led investigators to arrest Gregory Silva, 31, and Jose Marquez, 25, both of Compton, and Jose Garcia, 19, of Long Beach.