Nurse Shot to Death on 60 Freeway

A Los Angeles police jail nurse was shot to death as she drove home on the Pomona Freeway early Monday, Riverside County sheriff’s investigators said.

Rosie Jane Almeyda, 35, was found dead in her car, which had come to rest against the center divider on the eastbound side of the freeway, just east of Interstate 15 in an unincorporated area of western Riverside County.

The bullet was fired through the passenger side window of her car, striking Almeyda in the head, sheriff’s officials said.

The shooting was believed to have happened around 2:45 a.m., about 15 minutes before a passerby reported the incident as a single-vehicle collision.

Almeyda, a mother of two from Hemet, was a supervising correctional care nurse at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Van Nuys jail.

Los Angeles jail officials could not be reached for comment late Monday.

The investigation shut down the eastbound lanes of the freeway until 1 p.m.

Investigators believe there were other cars in the vicinity at the time of the shooting and were seeking information from anyone who may have witnessed any part of the incident.

In a similar shooting last month, Leroy Guerrero, 21, of Victorville, was shot to death while riding in a car on Interstate 15 near Lake Elsinore.

Authorities said Monday that they have no reason to believe that the shootings were related.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has requested that anyone with information about the shooting call investigators at (800) 275-2444.