{"id":205776,"date":"2026-03-05T16:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205776\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:14:25","slug":"chp-investigates-after-1-hurt-in-early-morning-sacramento-freeway-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205776\/","title":{"rendered":"CHP investigates after 1 hurt in early morning Sacramento freeway shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SAC generic police still chyron frame.png\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"\" alt=\"Police tape at crime scene\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Investigators were at work Wednesday after California Highway Patrol officers chased down multiple reports of shootings on Sacramento-area freeways that morning including one that sent a man to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to \u201cmultiple reports of vehicles struck by gunfire,\u201d said officials at the California Highway Patrol\u2019s Valley Division in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>CHP and Sacramento police officers early Wednesday found a car in the area of Eighth and K streets in downtown Sacramento believed to be tied to a gunshot victim in the Dos Rios Triangle area of Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento police responded about 5:30 a.m. to the area of Vine Street and Dos Rios Street in the Dos Rios Triangle area of Sacramento. Officers found the victim, who was taken to a hospital by emergency personnel, said Sacramento Police Department officials. Their condition was not known Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol later took over the investigation, Sacramento police said.<\/p>\n<p>CHP investigators continued to work in the area of Highway 160 and Interstate 5 Wednesday afternoon. Motorists were cautioned to expect delays in the area while the investigation continued.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information related to the incident is asked to call the CHP Valley Division Major Crimes Unit at 916-731-6500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published March 4, 2026 at 9:01 AM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/218174875\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772727265_841_SAC_Smith_Darrell_Author_Mug (1).JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Darrell Smith\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/218174875\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darrell Smith<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Darrell Smith is a local reporter for The Sacramento Bee. He joined The Bee in 2006 and previously worked at newspapers in Palm Springs, Colorado Springs and Marysville. Smith was born and raised at Beale Air Force Base and lives in Elk Grove.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators were at work Wednesday after California Highway Patrol officers chased down multiple reports of shootings on Sacramento-area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[852,94507,348,236,121,123,122,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-205776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-chp","9":"tag-dos-rios-street","10":"tag-investigation","11":"tag-police","12":"tag-sacramento","13":"tag-sacramento-headlines","14":"tag-sacramento-news","15":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}