ALHAMBRA, Calif. – Police in Alhambra are warning against a new scam that’s popped up in the area, and say if you find a parking ticket on your vehicle, give it a closer look.

According to police, criminals are sticking fake parking tickets on cars in the area, complete with QR codes where people can “pay their fines.” The tickets are pretty convincing looking, saying that they’re issued by the City Of Alhambra Parking Enforcement, featuring the car’s information and a reason for the citation. 

Police say that if you find a ticket on your windshield that looks like it, do not scan the QR code.

“Scammers create QR codes to trick people into visiting a fraudulent website or downloading malware that compromises their personal information,” the department’s post said.

A fake traffic citation found on a vehicle in the city of Alhambra (Credit: Alhambra Police Department via Instagram)

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Another dead giveaway that the post is fake, police say, is that it includes the URL to a website outside of the city’s official web page.

“We will only refer you to our safe and secure city website: www.cityofalhambra.org. If you are unsure, don’t hesitate to contact us,” police urged the public.

To help you figure out if the ticket you find on your car is legitimate, police shared photos of the only two types of citations the city issues.

Real traffic citations from the Alhambra Police Department (Credit: Alhambra Police Department via Instagram)

Officers are asking anyone who finds one of the fake tickets on their car to contact the Alhambra Police Department’s Traffic Division at 626-570-5119.

HIGHLAND, California — Two drivers are dead after an apparent case of road rage in San Bernardino County, California which led to a gunfight – even as one had two young children in his car.

“It could have been so incredibly simple,” said Mara Rodriguez, a spokesperson with the San Bernardino County sheriff’s department. “Unfortunately, we have two people who lost their lives instead.”

Police said the incident started Saturday just before 8 p.m. on the 210 Freeway in Highland. A motorcyclist, identified as 38-year-old Jonathan McConnell of Corona, was lane splitting, and clipped a sedan driven by 37-year-old Aaron Harris of Highland.

Instead of pulling to the side of the freeway, deputies say the motorcyclist left the scene, and drove to the parking lot of Joy’s Lounge on Baseline Avenue in Highland.

The sedan driver, Harris, pursued the motorcyclist to the parking lot. He had his 2-year-old and 5-year-old children in the car with him.

“When they arrived in that parking lot, the man in the sedan began yelling at the motorcyclist,” said Rodriguez. “They became confrontational. They were both armed, and a shooting occurred, and the two of them both ended up deceased at the end of the night.”

Deputies said another man in front of the restaurant was wounded on his hand. The two small children in the backseat of the sedan were unharmed.

“We all get angry on the roads sometimes, especially these days there’s so much traffic out there and so many things going on,” said Rodriguez. “But this is a great example of how things can go so wrong so quickly.”

A recent data analysis found that California is the worst state for road rage and confrontational drivers.

CHICO — A Cohasset family is recovering after six homes within their extended family were destroyed in the Park Fire.

They were on vacation when what’s now become the sixth-largest wildfire in California history broke out in Butte County last week. They started calling friends and loved ones to get their important belongings before it was too late.

Alida Markwood told CBS13 her family home, along with those of her mother, her grandmother, uncle, cousin and brother were all impacted. At least one of the homes was a rental and was the source of income for members of her family.

Now they’re focused on what is necessary to rebuild and find comfort again.

“We don’t have a place to go home to. We don’t have a home and so I guess (it’s) a just really hectic, really busy, kind of lost feeling. I know one of the other things you asked was, you know, how we’ve been feeling, and I tried to describe it to people as like a feeling of being lost,” Markwood said.

They are staying with another family member, which Markwood said is a blessing that others may not have.

“It’s somewhere to rest,” she told CBS13.

She said she knows her family is not alone in the impact of the Park Fire. While she hasn’t been able to go back to any of the family homes to see the damage with her own eyes, a neighbor sent photos of one of the homes.

“It was a very sentimental home. My mom and dad built it together, and he passed away a few years ago. So it was like the last of him that we lost. So the sentimental side, all the little things like socks and shoes and things you can go buy,” Markwood said. “But it’s the things that are part of him and part of our family history that we can’t get back. It’s probably the hardest part to wrap your head around.”

They’ve turned to the community for support, through the nonprofit GoFundMe. The company told CBS13 that the nonprofit side was established to provide families, like Markwood’s, with money quickly after a natural disaster. A spokesperson for GoFundMe told CBS13 they can fulfill grant requests as part of the Northern California Wildfire fund in one-to-three days at times.

Markwood said her family needs support in the day-to-day as they process the losses from the Park Fire. Other members of her family impacted by the fire have turned to GoFundMe for immediate support and rebuilding funds.