Man Gets 50 Years to Life for Fatal San Diego County Freeway Shooting

EL CAJON, Calif.—A La Mesa man who chased after another vehicle on state Route 94 and fatally shot its driver was sentenced May 21 to 50 years to life in state prison. Thomas Evans III, 49, pleaded guilty last month to first-degree murder and an allegation of using a firearm in the March 5, 2022, killing of 27-year-old Saundralina Williams. Ms. Williams, a National City resident and mother of three, crashed into the center median of the freeway after she was shot. She died days later at a hospital. Two men who were passengers in Ms. Williams’s vehicle were not struck by the gunfire. One of the bullets Mr. Evans fired went into a Spring Valley apartment just south of the freeway, but none of its occupants was struck, according to testimony from a preliminary hearing held last year in El Cajon Superior Court....