Freeway Attacks on Vehicles Go Over 200 Mark

Despite stepped-up patrols, a wave of mysterious window-shattering freeway attacks on cars and trucks continued Saturday night, pushing the total to more than 200 since Sept. 11.

No injuries were reported in the 34 incidents reported as of 10 p.m., a California Highway Patrol spokesman said. Another 19 cars were attacked Friday night, most of them in a 90-minute period. The incidents have spread across a vast area from the San Fernando Valley to the Orange County border, said CHP Officer Rhett Price.

Some attacks occurred so quickly and so far apart that they had to involve more than one person, Price said. Investigators believe that copycat attackers are joining the assaults, and that most of the windows are being shattered by BBs, pellets or slingshots. Price also reported that some side windows were being broken, in addition to the rear windows that had been targeted in the earlier attacks.

Authorities say they have no suspects.

And in what the CHP called an unrelated incident, a 10-year-old boy was shot in the head through a car window and killed as he sat in a vehicle in North Hollywood.