I-15 Exit Where Student Was Slain to Be Barricaded
The Interstate 15 off-ramp where San Diego State University student Cara Knott was strangled will be closed this week, city and Caltrans officials announced.
The southbound Mercy Road exit will be closed for at least a year. Knott, 20, was killed Dec. 27, and her body was thrown off a bridge into a creek bed near the off-ramp.
City and Caltrans officials agreed to close the ramp after Knott’s family requested that it be barricaded. The exit leads to dead-end roads on both sides of the freeway and into a brush-covered area that is dark and isolated at night.
California Highway Patrol Officer Craig Alan Peyer has been arrested and charged with Knott’s murder.
San Diego police homicide investigators contend that Peyer, who was on duty the night of the slaying, pulled the young woman over and directed her to drive down the Mercy Road off-ramp, where she was killed.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
