Granada Hills Woman Shot on Freeway

NORTH HILLS — A Granada Hills woman was shot on the San Diego Freeway this weekend as she and her boyfriend drove home from her 20th birthday celebration, Los Angeles police said.

Laura Previde was listed in serious but stable condition Saturday evening at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Panorama City.

Shortly after the shooting, police arrested Temmie Brown, 23, of Gardena at an apartment complex at 15124 Plummer St., in North Hills.

According to police, Previde and her boyfriend were driving home around 10 p.m. Friday from a birthday celebration in Santa Monica. Near the Sherman Way overpass on the northbound San Diego Freeway, a man driving a white Jeep Cherokee began tailgating their Ford Ranger pickup.

Previde’s boyfriend, who was driving, tapped the brakes and sped up to try to distance himself from the tailgater. Instead, witnesses told police, the man sped up, drove alongside the passenger side of the truck and fired several shots. Previde was struck once, police said.

While Previde’s boyfriend drove to the hospital, friends in another vehicle followed the suspect as he left the freeway and pulled into a gated apartment complex.

“They had a cell phone and called police and said this guy had just shot at their friends and they were following the suspect and gave the license number,” said Sgt. Mike Sonntag of the Devonshire Division. “When they got to the apartment building they gave police the address.”

Brown was booked on suspicion of attempted murder. He was being held at the Devonshire station pending arraignment Tuesday.

Police said there was no argument before the shooting. “From what I understood, it apparently was over this traffic dispute,” said Sgt. Debra Kirk of the Devonshire Division.