Details in officer-involved shooting on 91 Freeway released
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A CHP official released some details Wednesday of the officer-involved shooting on the 91 Freeway in Corona that left a motorist, who was said to be armed, dead and traffic backed up for miles.
The incident began with a call to CHP dispatchers at 7:47 p.m. Tuesday of a traffic collision on the eastbound 91 west of Interstate 15, said CHP Officer Mario Lopez. Corona firefighters arrived to find a man outside his car on the shoulder of the freeway armed with a gun, he said.
Corona police and CHP officers arrived, and a short while later, the man was shot and killed, Lopez said.
“Both CHP and Corona police officers were involved in the shooting,” Lopez said.
He would not say how many officers were involved or the type of gun the man possessed. Further details of what transpired at the scene were not released Wednesday
The man, whose identity was not released, was pronounced dead at the scene, Lopez said.
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