Posted on 07/24/2006 6:10:04 AM PDT by Military family member
SEYMOUR, Ind. — Investigators scoured hundreds of miles of roadside for clues and put out a national alert after sniper attacks on two pickup trucks on Interstate 65 killed one person and wounded another.
About two hours after the early morning shootings in southern Indiana Sunday, bullets struck a semitrailer and an unattended sport-utility vehicle about 100 miles to the northeast on Interstate 69 in Delaware County. No one was injured.
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Sounds like someone on his or her way to Detroit City.
Time to pull together, good people of Indiana - eyes open - this crap can not stand here!
I'm glad it's not in the national news. At least it keeps the Brady Bunch (HCI) from grabbing any more headlines with their constitution trampling activities.
I think there is the name Mohammed involved myself, but it may be a Bubba who has just learned he has a few weeks to live and is busting some caps at folks who look like Mohammed.
Hadn't thought of that. You may be right.
Actually, this took place in Southern Indiana, near Seymour, home to John Mellencamp
Otherwise I wouldn't know about it.
I know exactly where it took place. I was born in Seymour.
Two hour drive, easy!
On his way back home to Detroit to meet with his Hezbollah buddies.
The one in Ohio a couple years ago was a home-grown nut.
Closer to six hours. The reports said the shootings took place 50 south of Indy. It's one hour to Indy from Seymour, then four and half to Detroit.
It's 96 Miles from Indy to Fort Wayne on I-69. Another 85 miles to Toledo from Fort Wayne on US 24, then 60 miles from Toledo to Detroit on I-75. Total distance from Indy to Detroit is roughly 280 miles.
Morel likely it is another Mohammed. Remember the DC snipers?
I think the NY power outage is sabotage from the same peaceful folks.
So far, though, there were no shootings in either Fort Wayne or Detroit. I-69, however, is the main drag out of Naptown to go to Fort Wayne, and then on to Detroit City.
Being from Seymour and having driven to Muncie(Ball State University) many times, '2 hour drive easy' might be overstating things. Getting off the county road overpass and on to the Interstate and getting to the second Munice exit in 2 hours would be doable, but not easy, and would not leave much room for traffic.
SEYMOUR (AP) — Police planned to examine bullets and other evidence Monday to help find who shot at vehicles along two interstate highways in Indiana, killing one person and wounding another.
Investigators planned to submit ballistics evidence to the Indiana State police lab to determine how many and what type of weapons were used in Sunday’s sniper shootings 100 miles apart, said state police Sgt. Jerry Goodin. The process normally takes weeks, he said, but because of the high priority of the case, he hoped to get results in a day or two.
“Hopefully our experts will be able to determine something for us,” Goodin said.
Police also planned to review video surveillance footage from businesses near the shootings. Police are also following up on tips called into a sniper hotline set up for people to report suspicious highway activity.
Sniper attacks on two pickup trucks on Interstate 65 near Seymour, 50 miles south of Indianapolis, killed one person and wounded another about 12:20 a.m. Sunday.
About two hours after those shootings, bullets struck a semitrailer and an unattended sport-utility vehicle about 100 miles to the northeast on Interstate 69 in Delaware County. No one was injured.
Goodin said authorities are considering the shootings to be linked “until proven otherwise.” There were no immediate suspects or witnesses, he said.
State police asked local, state and federal law enforcement agencies across the country to let them know of any similar shootings.
Gov. Mitch Daniels ordered the National Guard and the Indiana Department of Homeland Security to help state police if needed.
“We will not treat this just as a criminal act. We’ll use any and all resources to find the person or persons responsible,” Daniels said.
State police were not using the National Guard Monday morning, but Goodin said every available resource would be tapped.
“We’re not going to be shy about asking for help if we need it,” he said.
Electronic highway signs around the state flashed a message to motorists: “Report suspicious overpass activities — call police.”
State police asked motorists who had traveled through the area during the past week to check their vehicles for bullet holes, as a noise they dismissed as a rock might actually have been a bullet.
In the first shooting near Seymour, a bullet passed through the windshield of a Chevrolet pickup, striking and killing passenger Jerry L. Ross, 40, of New Albany, one of three people in the truck at the time. After Ross was shot, the driver of that truck pulled off the highway at a weigh station.
As state police were investigating, a driver called Seymour police from a gas station just off I-65 to report a second shooting.
Brandon Bonnesen was driving a Dodge extended cab pickup towing a trailer from Anita, Iowa, to a construction job in Florida when he heard a loud noise. His passenger, Robert John Otto Hartl, 25, of Audubon, Iowa, doubled over.
“I cussed a little bit and looked at my friend. He was all bent over and I said, ’You all right?” He said, ’I’m OK, keep going,”’ Bonnesen said.
The bullet grazed Hartl’s head near his left ear, said Bonnesen, who pulled over at a gas station after the shooting. Hartl was released after being treated at a Seymour hospital, and the men resumed their trip, despite a bullet hole in the middle of their truck’s windshield and a shattered rear window.
The I-69 shooting occurred about 50 miles north of Indianapolis. Trucker Richard G. Greek, 57, of Kunkle, Ohio, was driving north about 2:30 a.m. when he heard a series of pops and realized bullets had struck his rig. He was not injured and drove to a nearby truck stop to call police.
About an hour later, a clerk at a service station a few miles away heard gunfire and found an empty, parked vehicle had been hit, said state police Sgt. Rod Russell.
“Both vehicles were shot multiple times,” Russell said.
Police would not speculate whether the sniper or snipers were expert shots or just lucky.
Police closed 14 miles of I-65 for eight hours after the shootings. The highway is the only direct route between Chicago and Florida and is heavily traveled at all hours, Goodin said.
In late 2003 and early 2004, a sniper in the Columbus, Ohio, area killed one person in a series of random highway shootings. Charles McCoy Jr., arrested in March 2004, was sentenced to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty.
I know I can make it from Noble St to Arlington Blvd in one hour and 5 minutes. It's only 50 miles more to the site of the shooting, and that's a 45 minute trip at most.
the strip on 69 from 465 to about the Deer Creek exit almost always adds an additional half hour to any trip
Don't know that that would necessarily be true just after midnight Sunday am, unless there was a major concert just letting out...
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