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The California Highway Patrol on Tuesday announced the arrest of a 47-year-old man in connection with shootings on two East Bay freeways on the same day last month.
Damien Lamont Harris was identified as the suspect in the two shootings on Aug. 3, the first at about 1:30 p.m. on southbound Interstate 680 near Stoneridge Drive in Pleasanton and the second about 45 minutes later on the Industrial Parkway on-ramp to northbound I-880 in Hayward, according to the CHP.
Officers responded to the first shooting and found that a victim had been shot in the shoulder while driving in heavy traffic. No one was injured in the second shooting, CHP officials said.
Detectives investigating the cases recognized similarities in the vehicle descriptions for both shootings and used traffic cameras and other investigative tools to identify Harris as the suspect and obtain a warrant for his arrest.
On Aug. 29, authorities served search warrants at homes in Fairfield and Fremont and Harris was located at the Fairfield location and taken into custody on suspicion of attempted murder, assault with a firearm and discharging a firearm from a vehicle, according to the CHP. He was booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of those offenses as well as others related to items discovered during the serving of the search warrants.
