Detectives Seek Clues on Missing Woman

Ventura County sheriff’s detectives were still without clues Monday in the disappearance of a Moorpark woman after a Fourth of July party.

Investigators, however, suspect that Megan Barroso, 20, may have been involved in an altercation on the Moorpark Freeway sometime after 2:30 a.m. July 5, while driving home from a friend’s house in Thousand Oaks.

Anyone who saw any unusual behavior on the Moorpark Freeway in Thousand Oaks or along New Los Angeles Avenue late July 4 or early July 5 is asked to call the Sheriff’s Department.

Barroso’s car was found about 4 a.m., over a median under the Moorpark Freeway overpass at New Los Angeles Avenue, about two miles from her apartment. The car had been shot up by an assault rifle, and the engine was still running, authorities said. Investigators said she had no known enemies or criminal past.