Police: Man fights, kills another man on I-5, then gets hit by passing car and dies 
 
 The California Highway Patrol received reports of a collision shortly before 4 a.m. and "continued to receive reports that there was a fight between two individuals that was moving northbound on the freeway," according to CHP spokesperson Mike Zerfas. less The California Highway Patrol received reports of a collision shortly before 4 a.m. and "continued to receive reports that there was a fight between two individuals that was moving northbound on the freeway," ... more Photo: California Highway Patrol / California Highway Patrol / Photo: California Highway Patrol / California Highway Patrol / Image 1 of / 15 Caption Close Police: Man fights, kills another man on I-5, then gets hit by passing car and dies 1 / 15 Back to Gallery 
 
 A crash that led to a fight early Sunday morning left two men dead and resulted in an hours-long shutdown of all northbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Arena Boulevard in the Natomas area of Sacramento, authorities said. 
 
 The California Highway Patrol received reports of a collision shortly before 4 a.m. and "continued to receive reports that there was a fight between two individuals that was moving northbound on the freeway," according to CHP spokesperson Mike Zerfas. 
 
 The men fighting on the freeway were involved in the initial collision. Witnesses driving by said one of the men was hitting the other with some type of weapon, CHP said. 
 
 The man who was hit died from his injuries. 
 
 The suspect then continued walking north on the interstate. As he was walking, he was hit by a car and died, CHP said. 
 
 The driver of the car who killed the suspect is cooperating with CHP. ||||| Find out more details Monday here at sacbee.com. 
 
 Two people are dead following a vehicle collision Sunday morning on Interstate 5 that led to a fight between the two drivers. 
 
 
 
 
 
 The vehicles struck each other in the northbound lanes of I-5 around 3:44 a.m., according to Mike Zerfas, California Highway Patrol public information officer. 
 
 The two drivers, both male, then drove farther north on the freeway, stopped near Del Paso Road, exited their vehicles and began to fight, Zerfas said. One of the drivers was killed in the fight after suffering what appears to be blunt force trauma. Then the second driver, walking north on the freeway, was struck and killed by a passing motorist. 
 
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 “It escalated from a traffic collision to a fight to a homicide,” Zerfas said. 
 
 CHP investigators immediately arrived on the scene, where both men were pronounced dead. 
 
 According to Caltrans, northbound I-5 in Natomas near Del Paso Road was closed following the incident but has now reopened. Traffic is flowing normally again. 
 
 Update: Read The Bee’s latest story on the drivers’ DMV records here.
– Two California drivers are dead after a road-rage incident, but the circumstances of this one are strange. Police say two men were driving on Interstate 5 near Sacramento about 3:45am Sunday when one vehicle struck another, reports the Sacramento Bee. Both men kept driving, but they stopped near an exit, got out, and started fighting. Witnesses tell police that one man began hitting the other with some type of weapon, reports SFGate, and the man died from what is believed to be blunt-force trauma. The other driver then began walking along the freeway, only to be struck and killed by a motorist. “It escalated from a traffic collision to a fight to a homicide,” says a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol.