Police: Man fights, kills another man on I-5, then gets hit by passing car and dies

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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.