Oakland Road Rage Claims Life of a Mother of Four

This is just sad. A recent Oakland road rage has claimed the life of a 30-year-old mother, identified as Perla Avina. She was in the passenger seat of a vehicle driven by her husband when a motorist pulled up alongside their vehicle and shot her multiple times using a semi-automatic weapon.

In a report from CBS, “Officer Johnna Watson says Perla Avina was a passenger in a Toyota Camry driven by her husband Sunday afternoon in the city’s Brookfield Village neighborhood when someone in another car shot her. Police say an angry motorist sprayed gunfire into the 1998 Camry, hitting Avina in the head as she sat in the front passenger seat on the way home from a grocery store run.”

Avina’s husband Luis Lopez Gallegos said to authorities, “He was a coward with a gun. A young guy with a gun who doesn’t care about life.”

Gallegos also said details that the gunman may have not liked the way he drove.

Avina, a medical clerk at a pain rehabilitation center in Emeryville, is survived by her husband and her three daughters ages 1, 4 and 8 and her son, 14.

Police are offering a reward of up to $30,000 for information leading to an arrest in the case, reports CBS SF Bay Area. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the Oakland Police Homicide Unit at (510) 238-3821.