Police Want Answers 24 Years After Father Murdered on California Highway

As Fermín Saldivar, “devoted husband and father,” drove to work on a California freeway April 13, 1999, a red sedan pulled alongside him.

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Moments later, gunfire erupted on the 60 Freeway in Pomona, the Pomona Police Department said in a recent Facebook post.

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“Saldivar was hit once in the upper torso,” The Los Angeles Times reported in 1999. “His brother-in-law, who was in the passenger’s seat, steered the car off the freeway to a gas station and called police.”

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Twenty-four years later, police said April 7 they still have not identified a suspect in the “unprovoked” attack.

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“Fermín was hard working and always wanted to support his family,” police said. “This was a senseless act of violence, and his family would like to get closure.”

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After Saldivar, who had a 1-year-old child at the time of his death, was struck, the suspect “quickly” fled the area, according to police.

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“They killed an innocent person, and left my boy without a dad,” Saldivar’s wife told The Daily Bulletin at the time, according to a newspaper clipping shared by police.

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Witnesses told police “there wasn’t any road rage before the shooting.”

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Despite a monthslong investigation with no leads, the case went cold, according to police.

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Police said “Fermín’s family never lost hope and stayed in contact with” them.

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Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 909-622-1241.

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Pomona is about 30 miles east of Los Angeles.

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