AURORA, Colo. — Police call it another random shooting on I-225. Police aren’t saying much about what happened, other than this is the third random shooting on the busy highway across Aurora in the past few months.
It’s important that drivers are aware about what’s happening. “Yeah, bullets are hitting the car and you’re trying to stay alive,” the victim in Friday morning’s shooting told FOX31 Denver’s Justin Joseph.
When the gunfire broke out at I-225 and Iliff and the victim realized someone was shooting at his car, he raced away and called 911.
The bullet holes in his white Maxima remind him of his escape from gunfire. “They pulled out a gun and started following us and at some point they started shooting,” he said. “I was definitely worried for my life.”
The victim said he’s lucky to be alive.
“I was driving along when the dude pulled up next to me and started chasing me,” the victim said. He asked us not to identify him. “The car was going over 100 miles per hour and I thought I was dead.”
About 3 a.m. Friday morning he said a black sedan started chasing him on I-225 … all while he was on the phone with 911.
He kept going from southbound I-225 to northbound I-25. He went to the District 3 police station in Denver at University Boulevard and I-25 and got out of his car that was full of bullet holes at that point.
“Cant’ even go out on your own street without worrying about whether your going to die or not,” he said.
It’s the third similar incident along I-225 in the past two months.
Aurora Police called it random.
Regis University criminal professor Don Lindley had a different word for it: “Copycat.”