Police Beat

Chula Vista Police announced one person was wounded in a possible road rage shooting involving two motorists near the entrance of the Otay Ranch Mall on Wednesday morning.

The motorist accused of attempting to grab a California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer’s gun after getting into a solo freeway accident in Mission Valley made his initial court appearance Tuesday.

Amalia Samaniego, 44, faces up to 26 years to life in state prison if convicted and faces a knife allegation and a murder charge.

Authorities identified a 30-year-old woman incarcerated at a San Diego Detention Facility as a suspect in the murder of an East County woman whose body was discovered in Bonita.

The San Diego Police Department announced a $5,000 reward today for information leading to an arrest in the three-year-old unresolved fatal shooting of Gregory Izik Ruffin Jr., in front of a Lincoln Park-area apartment complex.

Authorities arrested a transient man suspected of shooting a 57-year-old man in the chest with a ghost gun during an argument late Thursday in Chula Vista.

California Highway Patrol officer Tony Pacheco was shot in his right thigh Wednesday alongside Interstate 8 during a scuffle for control of his own gun with a 25-year-old motorist.

The sheriff's office reported the death of an inmate in custody at the George Bailey County Detention Center in the Otay Mesa area. Twenty-five-year-old Omar Ornelas, a San Marcos resident, was in a cell Wednesday with two other men.

Adults are using fake profiles on Social Media posing as young girls to coerce young boys to produce sexual images and videos, then extorting money from them, according to the San Diego FBI.

The San Diego County medical examiner identified the Chula Vista man killed in an accident at the intersection of Interstate-805 North and State Route 94 as 26-year-old Jesse Armando Sosa.