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Teenage driver shot by attacker in another vehicle in Oxnard

David von Diemar
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Unsplash

17-year-old girl reported to be in stable condition after emergency surgery.

A teenager is recovering after being shot in the neck while driving a car in Oxnard.

The 17-year-old was driving on the 500 block of Cuesta Del Mar Drive at around 9 Thursday night when someone in another vehicle opened fire. Several shots were fired. The teenage driver was hit, but her two passengers escaped uninjured.

The car then crashed as the victims were trying to get to a hospital. The teen is reported to be in stable condition after undergoing emergency surgery.

Detectives are trying to figure out if the people in the car were being targeted, or if was a random attack.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.