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SEYMOUR, Ind. — Investigators scoured hundreds of miles of roadside for clues and put out a national alert after sniper attacks on two pickup trucks on Interstate 65 killed one person and wounded another. About two hours after the early morning shootings in southern Indiana Sunday, bullets struck a semitrailer and an unattended sport-utility vehicle about 100 miles to the northeast on Interstate 69 in Delaware County. No one was injured.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Prosecutors trying Charles Allen McCoy Jr. for a string of sniper shootings in the greater Columbus area reminded jurors Thursday of the effect those shootings had one their own lives. "The choice of driving routes drastically changed for many drivers here in central Ohio," Franklin County First Assistant Prosecutor Ed Morgan told jurors during his opening statement in McCoy's capital murder trial. "The evidence will show that this change in driving routes was due in large part because someone in possession of a 9 mm Beretta pistol was choosing not to fire at a range target, but...

Motorist Shot on San Diego Freeway in North Hills LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 18 year-old motorist on the San Diego (405) Freeway was shot three times today by a gunman in black Honda, police said. A no-hits shooting occurred shortly afterward on the eastbound Foothill (210) Freeway near Hubbard Street. The victim from the 405 went to the Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, and police said his vital signs were stable, said Los Angeles police Sgt. Jeff Hart of the Devonshire Station. The victim, whose name police refused to make public, told police he was shot on the northbound...

No Injuries Reported COLUMBUS, Ohio -- There is a report of a car being shot on Interstate 70 East, NewsChannel 4 reported. The incident happened at about 10:45 a.m., west of Route 310 near the Pataskala exit. A vehicle appeared to be shot on the right side panel, NewsChannel 4 reported. There is no word if the shooting is related to the serial shootings to the south of Columbus. This apparent shooting is outside of the general geographic location that 23 other shootings have occurred.

Incident might be tied to eight snipings.ST. LOUIS (AP) - Authorities are investigating whether the shooting of an Indiana truck on Interstate 44 might be linked to eight other possible snipings at motorists in recent months along the stretch of freeway. The truck driver - wounded Thursday on her 34th birthday - was the first person who was injured in nine cases of vehicle windows inexplicably shattering in daylight since Feb. 26 along a 10-mile stretch of I-44 in and near Bourbon, about 70 miles southwest of St. Louis, an investigator said. "There’s no question we had a highway shooting...

(KSDK) - Bourbon police believe a sniper is shooting at vehicles along a 10 mile strech of Interstate 44. Thursday, a truck driver was shot near Bourbon. Police believethis is the 8th shooting since February

Michael Wagner lied about his name. He told the trooper who stopped him for not wearing a seat belt that he couldn't find his identification. Then, Iowa State Patrol Trooper Kenneth Haas found a gun, three bulletproof vests, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a flight simulator and a bag of flight manuals dating to 2001. Haas testified at a federal court hearing Tuesday that he also found a 5-foot telescope hooked to camera equipment, night-vision goggles and a night-vision rifle scope when searching Wagner's sport utility vehicle on July 14 on Interstate 80 near Council Bluffs. The materials, said Assistant...

SACRAMENTO - The California Highway Patrol on Friday released a sketch of the so-called Interstate 580 sniper. Victims described the suspect as a white male driver in his early 30s with short or balding hair, who drove a dark-colored or black American-made pickup truck, CHP spokesman Sgt. Wayne Ziese said. The CHP has been heavily patrolling I-580 trying to locate the suspect in the shooting of eight cars late last month between the East Bay cities of San Leandro and Dublin. The cars were punctured by bullets, but no passengers or drivers were injured. Ziese also said Friday that CHP...

Gunman Knows Escape Route Before He Takes Action COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The key characteristics from the serial shooter's latest attacks are changing, according to a former FBI profiler. Those opportunities are opportunity and location, according to Clint Van Zandt, who now provides his expertise for MSNBC. "(The shooter is) shooting from an overpass, where he has the ability to go left and to go right," Van Zandt told NewsChannel 4's Duarte Geraldino Monday. "He's not trapped on an interstate where he has to look for an exit." The serial shooter's latest victim was driver Tony Hall. He was driving east...