A person in a car that struck a tree in Riverside Friday had been shot, police said.

Riverside Police Department officers and Riverside Fire Department firefighters responded just before 4 p.m. to the 600 block of East La Cadena Drive, near Interstate 215, for a reported single-vehicle traffic crash into a tree, police said.

Firefighters determined a person in the vehicle had been shot. The victim was taken to a hospital in critical condition, police said.

A motive for the shooting has not been determined and no arrests have been made, police said.

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