California High Patrol detectives on Saturday arrested a Richmond man believed to be the suspect in a freeway shooting that left one person injured early Saturday morning in Vallejo.
Officers assigned to the CHP’s Solano area office in Vallejo were dispatched at about 5:30 a.m. on a report of a shooting that occurred on eastbound Interstate 780 east of Glen Cove Road.
Following the shooting, the driver of the victim vehicle pulled to the right shoulder of the freeway and called 911, according to information posted Monday on a CHP-Solano social media page.
Before officers arrived on scene, the victim was transported to a local hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds and was later released, according to information provided by an official in the CHP’s Golden Gate Division in Vallejo.
Detectives assigned to the division responded to the scene and assumed the lead role in the investigation. During their investigation, detectives were given a description of the suspect vehicle, which was then located using a Flock Safety camera in the area. With that information, detectives identified Mohamed Ahmed Rafiq Ali of Richmond as the primary suspect in the shooting.
At approximately 5 p.m., detectives, with the help of the division’s Warrant Service Team, found Ali at his home in Richmond, in the 600 block of South 37th Street, and took him into custody without incident.
Ali, 39, was booked into Solano County Jail at 9:24 p.m. on suspicion of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and firing a weapon at an occupied vehicle, all felonies.
He is scheduled for an initial Solano County Superior Court appearance at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Fairfield.
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