Adding on to post no. 14339...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1063778/posts "Shot hits cars on I-71, Outerbelt"
The Columbus Dispatch ^ | January 23, 2004 | Bruce Cadwallader and John Futty
Posted on 01/23/2004 8:38:05 AM PST by flutters
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Gunfire hit cars traveling on I-71 and I-270 yesterday. No one was injured.
A task force investigating the serial sniper is analyzing two shell casings found on an I-71 overpass after a motorist was fired on about 1 a.m.
If the incident is linked to the shooter, it will be the 20th and the most recent since a car was hit Jan. 11.
The bullet that hit Michael Thomas’ car appears to have ricocheted off the hood and cracked the windshield.
Last night, the task force was called to a shooting on the Far West Side, though authorities were trying to determine whether it might be an unrelated case of road rage.
Four bullet holes could clearly be seen on the passenger side of the white Chevy Suburban.
The Suburban’s driver, who asked that his name not be used, told police that the incident happened as he was getting off I-270 at the Georgesville Road exit about 9:45 p.m. to go to work at The Dispatch printing plant.
The man said the shots were fired from a late 1980s white Bonneville that he had passed on the Outerbelt at I-71. The driver of the Bonneville began tailgating him, at one point clipping his Suburban. The Bonneville followed him off the Georgesville ramp and pulled alongside, and shots were fired from it. The driver of the Suburban was uninjured."
Vanderpoel Elementary School is on the south side of the city, near city limits. Predominantly black area.
City: CHICAGO, IL
School type: ELEMENTARY
Grades: K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Schools in district: 576
District: CITY OF CHICAGO SCHOOL DIST 299
School Enrollment: 312
White students: 0.0%
Black students: 99.0%
Hispanic students: 1.0%
Asian students: 0.0%
Native American students: 0.0%
Low income: 49.0%
Parental involvement: 96.2%
Attendance rate: 96.4%
Mobility rate: 1.3%
Chronic truants: 0
Chronic truants rate: 0.0%
The Muslim community blends well there and own many businesses all over the south side
Now your talking -g- I like the links for the government -law-enforcement agencies, I had not heard about what happened in Chgo, thanks Cindy!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1064633/posts "Explosive discovery leads to an arrest"
appeal democrat ^ | 1/24/04
Posted on 01/24/2004 4:30:17 PM PST by knak
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Linda woman was arrested Wednesday with enough explosive detonation cord in her car to blow a crater in the road, according to a state bomb and arson expert.
A Yuba County sheriff's deputy found the cord in a 5-gallon plastic bucket inside the car when he stopped Teresa Jean Oliver, 43, of the 5900 block of Garden Avenue, for a vehicle code violation at 8:34 p.m., Undersheriff Steve Durfor said.
Oliver, who is on parole for a previous drug offense, was arrested on suspicion of possessing a destructive device without a permit and was being held Friday in the Yuba County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bail. A court date had not been set Friday.
After recognizing a parolee who was a passenger in the car, the deputy searched the car and found what he believed to be detonation cord. The parolee, who was not identified, was not arrested, Durfor said.
The car was registered to Oliver, he said.
California Department of Forestry bomb and arson investigator Phil Porto was called to the scene and ordered a 300-foot perimeter set up around Oliver's car in the parking lot of the Linda Wal-Mart store on North Beale Road. The Linda Fire Department also was summoned.
Porto estimated the bucket contained almost 2,000 feet of the cord, which he said is highly explosive when exposed simultaneously to heat and shock. Porto said the car did not contain blasting caps that are ordinarily used to ignite the cord.
If the cord had exploded, it would have demolished the car, blown a 4-foot crater in the road and turned anyone in or near the car into "red mist," Porto said."