Police say an angry motorist sprayed gunfire into their black 1998 Toyota Camry, hitting 30-year-old Avina in the head as she sat in the front passenger seat. A horrified Gallegos — who declined Monday to talk in detail about the circumstances of the shooting — drove the car a couple of blocks to the family home on Rossmoor Avenue in the city’s Brookfield Village neighborhood and called police. Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close gallery_thumbnails_show|article-gallery-5851073|article-gallery-5851073|0 gallery_overlay_open|article-gallery-5851073|article-gallery-5851073|0 gallery_overlay_open_thumbs|article-gallery-5851073|article-gallery-5851073|0 Image 1 of 1 Perla Avina Photo: Courtesy Oakland Police Dept. "This was a beautiful young woman with four young children and there was no reason for it… This never should have happened."  By Allie Rasmus 
 
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 The family of a young mother of four who was fatally shot while riding in the passenger seat of her husband's car this weekend desperately asked for the public's help Monday as Oakland police continued the search for suspects. Gallegos, 32, and his wife, 30-year-old Perla Avina, were driving south on busy 98th Avenue at about 12:30 p.m. Sunday when someone in a second car apparently grew angry with them and opened fire. Someone in another car pulled up alongside the Avinas' black Toyota Camry and fired mulitple rounds into the car. "If they know the person who did this, please turn him in. Family are mourning the loss of Perla Avina, a wife and mother of four, outside her home in East Oakland, Calif. on Monday, Oct. 27, 2014 after she was shot and killed in an apparent case of road rage while driving to the store with her husband on Sunday afternoon. Police and CrimeStoppers of Oakland are offering up to $30,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the shooter. Oakland police want to remind any potential witnesses to this crime that they can remain anonymous if they come forward.
– Luis Lopez Gallegos says he is now a widower with four children to raise—just because someone didn't like the way he drove. In what police are probing as a road-rage attack, 30-year-old Perla Avina was shot dead Sunday afternoon as the couple was driving to their East Oakland, Calif., home from a supermarket, reports the Oakland Tribune. Gallegos, a mechanic, says that after an altercation, a "young guy with a gun who doesn't care about life" pulled up alongside his car and sprayed it with bullets, killing his wife as she sat in the front passenger seat. "I wish God would have took me before they took her. I wish I would have gotten shot," says Gallegos. The couple's four children are three girls ages 1, 4, and 8, and a 14-year-old boy. The younger children "don't know what's going on," the boy tells the San Francisco Chronicle. "But my older sister, she's just trying to hold it down, like me." A reward of up to $30,000 is being offered for information leading to the shooter. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan tells KTVU that police have been told to make the murder a priority and will be "putting investigators on overtime and really focusing on this."