New Video Shows I-80 Shooting Victims Stumbling Into Denny's
SAN PABLO (CBS SF) -- New video surfaced Friday showing a bleeding victim stumbling into a Denny's restaurant asking for help moments after Thursday night's shooting on I-80 in San Pablo.
A surveillance camera captured two people walking into the restaurant after they had been shot on the freeway near the San Pablo Dam Road exit.
The man seen in the video walking back and forth was not hit. He brought the injured person in and abandoned him shortly afterwards.
"The injured person said 'Can you please don't go?' But he said 'No, I have to go' and he ran away," said Denny's restaurant manager Salman Jafri. "But he said please 'Call my baby mama at least.'"
Jafri said the man still ran off without giving additional help or making the requested call.
"No, I don't want this kind of friend. An enemy is better than this friend," said Jafri.
Instead, Denny's waitress Cynthia Lopez stepped in to help stop the bleeding.
"He got shot on his arm and he was bleeding," remembered Lopez. "So I have a cloth and put it on his wound and put pressure on it."
Lopez stayed with the 30-year-old Richmond man until police got to the restaurant.
Cell phone footage showed police helping the man and asking about the person he was with.
"Was it your brother in the car with you? Who was it? Was it your brother? Who?" a police officer can be heard asking in the video.
The injured victim simply responds "It's cool man." The officer then repeats the questions: "I'm asking you who is it? Who was with you?"
The victim did not cooperate with detectives.
CHP said the victims were targeted in Thursday's shooting. Someone fired multiple rounds into their brand new SUV.
It was the fourth freeway shooting since last month on this stretch of I-80. Police have no motive and investigators don't know who the gunman is.
Authorities are still trying to track down the second victim who ran off.
CHP investigators last month said they were looking at possible links between the Nov. 2 and Nov. 10 shootings.
Officials Thursday said there is no reason to think the public is being targeted at random on the freeway.
"Thought it is too soon in our investigation to determine if these shooting incidents are connected, it is clear that the victims are being specifically targeted," the CHP said in a statement.
Witnesses to Thursday's incident are asked to call the CHP at 1 (800) TELL-CHP (835-5247) or the investigative services unit at (510) 622-4609
