California Highway Patrol detectives announced Monday the arrest of a Richmond man in connection with a freeway shooting in Vallejo last weekend that left one victim injured.
According to a Facebook post, CHP officers were dispatched to investigate a shooting on eastbound Interstate 780 (I-780), east of Glencove Rd. in Vallejo early Saturday morning around 5:30 a.m., officers arrived and found the victim’s vehicle on the right shoulder of the highway. The driver had stopped and called 9-1-1 and the victim was transported to an area hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds before the CHP arrived on scene.
Detectives from the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) of the CHP’s Golden Gate Division responded to the scene and took charge of the investigation. Detectives were given a description of the suspect vehicle, which was then located in the area using a Flock security camera. Using this information, detectives identified a suspect, 40-year-old Richmond resident Mohamed Ahmed Rafel Ali.
At approximately 5 p.m., detectives located Ali at his Richmond home with the assistance of the Golden Gate Division Warrant Service Team and took him into custody without incident. The suspect was booked into the Solano County Jail on multiple charges, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and firing a weapon into an occupied vehicle.
