Number Of Serial Shootings Stands At 15

News Channel 4 ^ | December 9, 2003

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[swilhelm73]

Let me guess, police are searching for a disgruntled white Christian male who listens to Limbaugh, right?

[Orangedog]

Has there been any news on what caliber that whack-job has been shooting? If he's cracking off shots on South High street, I doubt he could shoot off a 30.06 in an area littered with strip malls, a Kroger and Walmart without someone hearing it. It's not like this is a low traffic area.

[Free Trapper]

F,would you put me on your ping list,please? :)

[TXnMA]

The woman sounded panicked when calling 911. She told a dispatcher that she did not know if the gun was a rifle or handgun.

If she can't tell the difference between a handgun and a rifle, why should anyone believe she actually saw a firearm of any kind?

[WackyKat]

Let me guess, police are searching for a disgruntled white Christian male who listens to Limbaugh, right?

Yes, and he wears Confederate flag t-shirts and belongs to the local militia and talks a lot about the End Times and likes NASCAR

It would be interesting if he's actually a Muslim doing his own mini-Jihad, wouldn't it?

[Free Trapper]

That sounded to me like she may have heard the same vehicle backfire as the other person did and started "seeing" things.

A tuneup might be in order for anyone that has a vehicle that's not running up to par.

I wouldn't want to have people start "shooting back" at a backfire.

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Has there been any news on what caliber that whack-job has been shooting?

They are still withholding that information. The only thing I heard was a reporter on channel 4 said it was a 50 caliber weapon. The station then went to break and when the news came back on, they said it was a mistake and the weapon was NOT a 50 caliber. I suspect it is and the news reporter slipped.

[flutters]

I sure will, Free Trapper. How are you feeling?

[swilhelm73]

It would be interesting if he's actually a Muslim doing his own mini-Jihad, wouldn't it?

Make that; It would be interesting if he's actually another Muslim doing his own mini-Jihad the same way the last two did, wouldn't it?

Between the LAX shooting and the previous two muslim terrorist snipers, I would think the notion Jihadis only deal in bombs should be long dead...

[flutters]

If she can't tell the difference between a handgun and a rifle, why should anyone believe she actually saw a firearm of any kind?

I listened to the 911 recording that was released to the media. The woman was panicky. She was screaming, crying, yelling, etc. I don't think she could have added 2+2 at the time....she was really scared. She may have just seen the end of the gun. I remember the time I was robbed, I couldn't give a description of the gun other than it was a hand gun but seemed to be gigantic.

[Free Trapper]

There was one report of a horse or stock trailer being shot and the person pulling it saw several juveniles with a rifle on an overpass at the time.

F,better,thanks,I "think".:o}

[WackyKat]

It seems to me unlikely to be a 50 ca. That would do a lot of damage to a vehicle- but some people didn't even report their cars had been shot until the woman was killed, which suggests the impact and hole must have been rather small. Also, 50 ca. is very loud and not exactly concealable and would attract attention of anyone in the area when it was fired

[Free Trapper]

I had a .50 cal. muzzle loader cross my mind but I don't think that would fit these shootings,either.

[Smokin' Joe]

There has been an anti-.50 jihad in the works for a while now, just waiting for an incident. I ferverently hope the rifle (assuming it is a rifle) involved is a plain-jane .30 caliber.

[Smokin' Joe]

Good point. The one bullet hole I saw on TV looked like a .30 caliber hole. A .50 BMG round would pass through most automobiles unless it hit the engine block.

[Free Trapper]

Also,I think we would be hearing a lot more about these shootings and they would have come to everyone's attention "much" sooner if a .50 cal. was being used.

[Smokin' Joe]

Yep. The anti-"sniper rifle" crowd is waiting in the wings with an omnibus deer rifle ban as we write. The .50 Barrett is the poster child.

[Wumpus Hunter]

I think it's just some rotten kid shooting at cars. Now that he's killed someone, he's scared $hitless and has stopped.

One of the things that really bugs me is all the fancy surveillance cameras they have installed. Driving on 270 used to be like the Auto-Bahn. It won't be anymore.

On a side note, an M80 tossed out the window would probably bring the cops swarming. I think the reason they closed the road at night last week, was so the news choppers couldn't see them installing all the sensors they can use to tri-angulate.