Authorities are searching for a suspect after a woman was killed by a rock that was thrown at her windshield on the freeway.

On Tuesday, the victim and a passenger were traveling on Highway 138, just east of Highway 18 in the Antelope Valley area at around 12:10 a.m.

As they were driving on the highway, a suspect suddenly launched a rock toward their windshield, smashing the glass and fatally striking the driver.

The passenger who survived told California Highway Patrol it was unclear where the rock was initially thrown from.

Authorities searched the surrounding area but no suspects were located. 

The incident followed a similar occurrence that happened just two days earlier on Oct. 6. That driver also told authorities rock was thrown at their windshield as they were driving on the highway in the same area.

“Given these recurring incidents, the California Highway Patrol Southern Division Major Crimes Unit and the CHP Antelope Valley Area are actively investigating these incidents and are seeking assistance from the community,” detectives said.

Anyone who has information on the case is urged to call the California Highway Patrol at 323-259-3200.

“The public’s cooperation is crucial to help bring the perpetrator(s) of this heinous act to justice and prevent further tragedies,” CHP officials said. “The California Highway Patrol is committed to ensuring public safety and will continue to investigate all incidents thoroughly.”

Police at the University of California, Los Angeles are investigating after receiving two recent reports of female students being drugged at off-campus fraternity parties.  

According to a bulletin issued by UCLA police, one of the incidents allegedly occurred on Oct. 3, with a second one reportedly happening Oct. 5 that sent a student to the emergency room.  

Experts who spoke to KTLA warn that these types of incidents are a public health issue that leave students susceptible to overdose and sexual assault. Several students agreed, saying it’s a concerning trend and one of the reasons they avoid off-campus parties altogether.  

The Oct. 3 victim reported that she had been to three separate parties at fraternities on Gayley Avenue and developed symptoms that she didn’t believe were alcohol related.  

Several days later, the second victim said she attended one party where she was handed a drink and quickly began feeling unusual, eventually prompting her to go to the hospital.   

Many students, like UCLA senior Zoe Gianna Monterola, received a “Bruin Alert” alert about the incidents on their cellphones and found the message disturbing.  

“Definitely just disheartening and I think what’s more sad is that it’s really not surprising,” she explained. “I feel like there’s a culture of being able to tolerate these things and moving on, especially when you’re in a college environment.”  

Another student, Temi Osuntokun, told KTLA’s Rachel Menitoff that there are certain fraternities with a reputation for misconduct.  

“It’s something that we’ve heard about ever since my freshman year and I’m a fourth year [student],” she said. “We’ve been hearing about frats assaulting, raping, drugging students. When we walk by, we’re like, ‘Oh yeah, there’s that one frat,’ and it’s that sort of thing.”  

Dr. Tipu Khan, Chief of Addiction Medicine at Ventura County Medical Center, told KTLA’s Rachel Menitoff that people are unintentionally being exposed to more drugs than they think.  

“They think they’re taking one substance, for example alcohol or cannabis, but it’s contaminated with other drugs and other substances that can lead to overdose or cases where they are taken advantage of,” he said.  

KTLA has reached out to UCLA, asking what exactly officials are doing about the issue and how they’re counseling students to be safe and is awaiting a response.  

So far, authorities have not identified any suspects in connection with the two incidents.  

A Los Angeles firefighter was injured when he fell through the floor of an abandoned apartment building that caught fire in Hollywood early Tuesday morning.

The fire was reported just after 2 a.m. at the two-story boarded-up complex in the 7700 block of Hollywood Boulevard.

Heavy fire was showing at the rear of the building, which had already been damaged in previous fires, Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Cody Weireter said.

Plywood on doors and windows made entry difficult for firefighters, who initially took a defensive posture but put out the blaze in a little over 30 minutes.

One firefighter was injured after eventually making his way into the structure.

“We had a firefighter fall through the floor that was conducting a primary search to see if we had any victims inside,” said Weireter, who described the injury as non-life threatening.

No victims were located inside the structure but video from the scene showed a firefighter handing a blanket to a naked man standing in some bushes.

Investigators were later seen talking to the man but his connection to the fire, if any, was unclear.

The cause of the fire remains unknown, but Weireter did say that the blaze is “under active investigation from our arson counter-terrorism section.”