Driver, Passenger Wounded in Shooting on Pasadena Freeway
A 34-year-old Glendale woman was in “extremely grave” condition and a male driver was in serious condition after they were shot in a car on the Pasadena Freeway shortly after the New Year started Friday morning, Los Angeles police said.
Two or three men in a “dark-colored car” fired 15 to 20 shots at Frank Valenzuela’s car as he drove on the northbound Pasadena Freeway between Avenues 43 and 52 about 12:30 a.m., Detective Bob Suter said.
Valenzuela, 41, was hit three times in the face and near the spine. Peggy Guzman, who was riding in the front passenger seat, underwent surgery for two bullet wounds in the head at County-USC Medical Center.
Suter said the motive is not known and detectives do not know whether the victims knew their assailants. Two other men riding in the rear of Valenzuela’s 1985 black Buick Regal were uninjured.
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