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Tracking a shooter Authorities fan out along closed part of Outerbelt, use laser to shed light on series of shootings Sunday, December 07, 2003 Michael Hawthorne and Encarnacion Pyle THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

A red laser beam swept across a closed section of the south Outerbelt last night as lawenforcement officials tried to figure out where a bullet came from that killed a woman on Nov. 25.

Leading a procession of marked and unmarked cruisers was the white Pontiac Grand Am that Gail Knisley was riding in when she was fatally shot on I-270.

Just after dusk, a laser threaded through the bullet hole in the driver-side door beamed an eerie light into the woods just north of the highway between Rts. 62 and 23. By following the path of the light, investigators were trying to determine where the shooter had been.

As they moved east along the empty interstate, those on foot occasionally stopped and used flashlights to scour the woods and drainage ditches. Deputy sheriffs wearing camouflage scanned the area with night-vision binoculars.

Authorities refused to provide details of what they were doing, but reporters observed the slow-moving group of Franklin County, state and federal officials from the Gantz Road and Jackson Pike overpasses.

Authorities have said the bullet that killed Knisley came from the same gun as four other bullets — one shot through a window at Hamilton Central Elementary School, another through a house in Obetz and two that lodged in two other vehicles.

Authorities think a total of 14 shootings are linked.

After taking the unusual step of requesting the closing of the south Outerbelt, investigators used the same high-tech methods they employed Friday night at Donald Fitch’s house in Obetz, which was struck Nov. 30 or Dec. 1.

The beam from the laser poking through the bullet hole in a wall facing I-270 illuminated a spot about 180 yards away on the northernmost guardrail, Fitch said. Lawenforcement officials told him the shooter either was a passenger in a moving vehicle or a driver who stopped, parked and then took a shot.

"They believed it came from a car, a westbound car," Fitch said yesterday.

No one was home at the house on Lisle Avenue when the bullet tore through the wall.

Franklin County Chief Deputy Steve Martin said the test at Fitch’s house was still being analyzed, and he couldn’t give details.

Edward Cable, whose van was shot on Nov. 21 as he was driving south on Rt. 23 below I-270, thinks that bullet, too, was fired from a passing vehicle.

The bullet, which authorities have said came from the same gun as the one that killed Knisley, shattered the rear passenger window of Cable’s van and lodged in the ceiling on the opposite side.

The bullet struck just as a vehicle going north was passing him, Cable said last week. "I thought whatever happened came from that vehicle."

In other developments yesterday, about 40 law-enforcement officers went door to door in the Hamilton Meadows subdivision. Secret Service agents and U.S. marshals were among those who visited the 840 homes in the neighborhood just south of Hamilton Central Elementary School, which was hit by a bullet on Nov. 11.

"We believe the person or persons responsible knows the area, lives in the area," Martin said. "It lets the community know we’re serious about this investigation."

Temporarily closing I-270 caused no problems, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation.

ODOT closed the entire 23-mile stretch of the Outerbelt between I-70 on the western edge of Franklin County and I-70 on the eastern side, even though police investigated only a 4-mile section.

"We had to close it all to keep traffic flowing," said Michelle May, an ODOT spokeswoman. The highway was closed at 4 p.m. and reopened at 7:12 p.m. Martin asked whoever is responsible for the shooting to call the sheriff’s office tip line at 614-464-4646 or to mail a message to P.O. Box 360562, Columbus 43236-0562.

Law-enforcement officials aim a laser through a bullet hole in the Pontiac Grand Am that Gail Knisley was riding in when she was shot to death Nov. 25 on I-270. Officials closed part of the south Outerbelt last night to investigate a series of shootings along that highway.