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To: Free Trapper
Interesting, but unlikely. Here's why (I'm not saying impossible). First, they would have to have a shooting port cut in the side of the vehicle (somewhat obvious if anyone gets a close look, especially under the circumstances), and most likely have a driver/shooter team. Open windows would be damned conspicuous this time of year, even in balmy Ohio.

There are far too many survivors who would hopefully remember the color/make/presence or absence of other vehicles beside them whe they heard the thunk of the bullet hit.

Although it might add to their sick thrills, there is a very real possibility an adjacent driver, if hit, would swerve into their vehicle.

A malvo-type vehicle rigged as a blind could be part of the scenario, but would be most likely parked, on an overpass, aproach ramp, or frontage road, above road level. Without information on terminal trajectories (where the round went after it hit) it is difficult to do anything but speculate.

The direction of the bullet after the initial impact would tell at least some of where to look for the shooter(s), allowing to tell relative elevation, whether they were shooting toward the aproaching vehicle, side-on, or as it was traveling away.

26 posted on 12/11/2003 9:38:58 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones..)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Besides knowing the caliber, the police know some other very interesting things.

For example, the exact trajectory of the bullet that killed the lady in the passenger seat after passing through the low front of the driver's door. Hard to see how a rising shot came from a great distance.

30 posted on 12/11/2003 9:47:55 AM PST by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Open windows would be damned conspicuous this time of year, even in balmy Ohio.

I must be missing something. If the shooter was driving down the opposite side of the freeway, all he would have to do is roll down his window and shoot with a handgun. That doesn't sound conspicous to me.

Also, if the shooter is using a handgun from the opposite side of the freeway his closing rate on his target is something like 140 mph. Wpouldn't this contribute to the innacuracy?

32 posted on 12/11/2003 11:00:26 AM PST by CharacterCounts
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