The suspect in a series of seemingly random freeway shootings on Highway 24 in Oakland, in which luckily, no one was hurt, has now been charged, and he reportedly has a prior vandalism conviction.
57-year-old Carlos Ray Thomas of Oakland was arrested Thursday after crashing his vehicle into the center divide on southbound 680 in Walnut Creek, and after he allegedly tried to flee that crash scene on foot.
That was about 20 minutes after two people reported being shot at by a man they didn’t know in a dark-colored SUV in the eastbound lanes of Highway 24 west of Tunnel Road. Those shootings occurred around 3:45 pm Thursday…