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Highway 101 Open Again After Bizarre Shooting On Central Coast

(CHP Photo)
A section of Highway 101 on the Central Coast was closed by a shooting Monday night.

A woman is in custody following a bizarre shooting incident which left a man with a minor gunshot wound, and closed a section of Highway 101 on the Central Coast.

CHP investigators say several shots were fired on Highway 101 near Donavan Road at around 5 Monday night.  The southbound lanes of the highway were closed as law enforcement officers looked for whoever was firing the shots.

At least three vehicles were hit, and a man in one of them suffered an arm wound.

As officers investigated what was happening, they discovered a woman in a car parked off the highway.  They say the woman claimed that she had car trouble.  But, they found ammunition casings and a gun, leading to her arrest.  The highway was completely reopened by around 10:30 Monday night.

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.