Fatal Attack on Freeway Not Random : Violence: The shooting involved rival gangs, investigators say. A woman and baby inside the car escaped harm.

The fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man on the Riverside Freeway on Friday evening was gang-related and not random gunfire, police said Saturday.

Police identified the victim as Oscar Garcia, a resident of Anaheim. Police also said that a woman and her 10-month-old daughter were passengers in Garcia’s Volkswagen Rabbit. Both were unharmed.

Detective Mike Foster said further information about Garcia and his passengers was being withheld until detectives pursued several leads about his assailants, who were still at large Saturday afternoon.

“This was definitely not a case of random violence,” Foster said. “It involved two rival gangs.”

Garcia was hit by a bullet fired from a Buick Regal that pulled alongside as he traveled east approaching the Orange Freeway about 6:20 p.m., police said.

Garcia continued driving a short distance then crashed into the center divider, police said. He was taken to Anaheim Memorial Hospital where he died a short time later.

Two lanes on the freeway were closed for a couple of hours while investigators looked for evidence.

Random freeway shootings in Orange County have been rare since 1987, when a series of such attacks swept Southern California. Five people were killed and 16 wounded during that spate of shootings that spring and summer, which ended as abruptly as they began.