POLICE: PERSON OF INTEREST DETAINED IN ROAD RAGE KILLING
Source: AP
BY MARY HUDETZ
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A person of interest was taken into custody Wednesday in a road rage shooting that killed a 4-year-old girl on a freeway in New Mexico's largest city, police said.
Police said they would provide more information later on the break in the case. They have pleaded for the public's help in finding a man they say opened fire on a pickup truck driven by Lilly Garcia's father soon after he picked up her and her 7-year-old brother from school Tuesday.
The girl's father drove onto Interstate 40 after the children climbed into the backseat, Police Chief Gorden Eden said earlier at a news conference. The assailant and the father, neither of whom have been identified, were heading west when one car pulled up to the other and the shooter opened fire, police said.
It's not clear what led the incident to escalate.
Police say they struggled with the initial investigation and search for the shooter because of a storm that swept over the Albuquerque area soon after the shooting, witnesses' varying descriptions of the suspect and a crime scene that could span 2 miles.
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