Posted on 02/11/2004 8:32:17 PM PST by flutters
Local Resident May Have Images
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A Fayette County resident may have captured images of the serial shooter on tape, NewsChannel 4's Monique Ming Laven reported.
Lester Beers said a surveillance camera mounted on his Brock Road home takes pictures of his driveway. The camera also might have been in the line of sight of the Brock Road overpass, where serial shooting investigators believe on Sunday a man shot a car traveling on Interstate 71, Laven reported.
Beers said he expected law enforcement officers to go to his home Wednesday night to pick up the surveillance equipment.
Beers would not say if he saw anyone on the surveillance tape. He said the equipment is old, and that the video is recorded on a VHS tape. He said the tape can be a little bit snowy.
A white Chrysler minivan traveling north along I-71 was shot near mile marker 71, near the Brock Road overpass. Four women were traveling in the minivan. The second shooting involved a brown-colored Mercedes-Benz traveling north on I-71 at the Prairie Road overpass. Both vehicles were struck on the hood.
"I can't confirm or deny the existence of it," Beers told the Fairborn Daily Herald for a story published Wednesday on its Web site. "My feeling is that the tape should not be brought into the media. No one knows what's on that tape. In all probability, it is the shooter, but I don't know for sure."
Beers told NewsChannel 4 that he heard shots fired Sunday and then he checked his surveillance equipment. Franklin County sheriff Chief Deputy Steve Martin would not comment on the tape, saying that it was an investigative issue.
According to Martin, witnesses spotted a white man with a handgun. He was believed to be 30-40 years old. The man was believed to be driving a small, dark-colored sports car or sedan.
Both shootings were linked Monday to 21 others south of Columbus since May, including one that killed a woman in November.
A reward for information that leads to the arrest and indictment of the shooter or shooters responsible for Gail Knisley's death stands at $60,000.
No kidding!
Interesting. A guy might possibly have filmed the shooter, so the police come to take his camera equipment? Why don't they just make a copy of the tape, and thank him for his service?
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