Suspect arrested after another (Highway) I-35 rock throwing (Austin, TX)

kxan ^ | June 3, 2016 | Claire Ricke

[bgill]

Police interviewed the suspect and concluded he is not responsible for all 83 cases of rock throwing. They say the person arrested Friday threw a rock and other objects.

Since June 2014, there have been more than 80 cases of rock throwing on I-35. During the weekend of May 20, 2016, police said 13 new rock-throwing cases injuring five people were reported.

[bgill]

Police think there are other suspects.

No need to look. He's another of Obama's relatives.

[dfwgator]

Shoot ‘em.

[WKUHilltopper]

Probably NRA members too...

[MNDude]

haha. From the article you can click to look at the pictures and it says “Warning: Graphic pictures”. All the pictures only show damaged automobiles. I guess they’re graphic if you happen to be an automobile.

[Gasshog]

Throw the rock throwers off the bridge and see how they like that.

[MNDude]

I remember about 20 years ago, some similar kids in Minneapolis dropped a cinder block on a father who was driving his car and killed him. The kids only got probation.

[sockmonkey]

I live a hundred miles from Austin, and this is the first time I’ve heard about there being over 80 cases of rock throwing on I-35 in Austin.

[vette6387]

Marquel Boone! Ding, ding, ding, we have another “winner” in the Barak Obola look alike contest!

[PAR35]

Hang him from the bridge railing as an example to others.

[bgill]

It’s been in the news for months. You can’t turn on an Austin station without hearing about another incident.

[waterhill]

It is a very common summer night activity for utes/amish kids in most states.

[UCANSEE2]

Time to outlaw rocks.

[funfan]

This perp is 40 years old.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Or at least require background checks prior to acquisition.

[RetiredTexasVet]

It’s not really big news, sort of like killings in Houston, Chicago, etc., just not that news worthy.

[kaehurowing]

When I was in college many years ago, we used to row against Columbia in races on the Harlem River. The university had a cabin cruiser follow the boats up the course that had a police sharpshooter with a sniper rifle on top. He was there to scare and potentially shoot any of the locals on the bridges that might throw things at the rowers as they passed underneath.

I understand that at some point earlier, a local had thrown a rock or brick off a bridge and killed a rower.

[familyop]

It’s a crime more often committed all over the country with both rocks and bullets.

[familyop]

Maybe the media will call it rock rage in order to glorify the criminals and cause more problems for their reporting. The politics of outrage: very lucrative.

[smokingfrog]

Time to outlaw rocks.

Especially those assault rocks!