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Authorities are now saying that the man shot last week in an apparently random act as he drove on the 110 freeway may be the victim of a shotgun-toting serial shooter.

Investigators believe five shootings in or around Carson over an eight-day period this month may have been carried out by the same person, according to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Office.

Last Thursday evening, 21-year-old Anh Tram Nguyen of Placentia was driving northbound on the 110 near Torrance Street when shrapnel blew through the drivers-side window of his car and hit him in the ear. Investigators later determined that Nguyen had been hit by birdshot from a shotgun. He was not seriously injured.

Investigators are seeing similarities between Nguyen’s shooting and that of four other victims in the area beginning on April 18, when a woman was shot in the arm as she walked on Main Street in Carson.