Re: NRA Sniper On the Loose: Ohio Police Link Two Highway Shootings

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:39:04 -0800, Tom Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>Thats just freaking great.
>
>Another nut-ball with a gun driving around  shooting people, just like
>those two snipers last year.
>
>What is is with the NRA anyway ??      

This has what, exactly, to do with the NRA?
>
>When will we ever learn ???
>
I dont know. Seek help

Gunner

>
>On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 22:07:57 -0800, Harry Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
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>>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=5&u=/ap/20031129/ap_on_re_us/highway_shootings
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>>Ohio Police Link Two Highway Shootings 
>>
>>11/28/2003
>> 
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>>By JOHN McCARTHY, Associated Press Writer 
>>
>>COLUMBUS, Ohio - The fatal shooting of a woman through a car door has
>>been linked to at least one of 10 other reports of shots fired at
>>vehicles along the same highway, authorities said Friday. 
>>
>>Police say the incident was not an accident. 
>>
>>They won't use the term "Sniper," but they say more of the shootings
>>along about a five-mile stretch of highway could be connected. 
>>
>>
>>Gail Knisley was headed to a doctor's appointment on a freeway ringing
>>Columbus when a bullet ripped through the driver's door. 
>>
>>"What was that?" she asked the friend driving, then she slumped
>>forward, fatally wounded. 
>>
>>"You just can't believe someone would be sick enough to be shooting at
>>cars," Missi Knisley, Knisley's daughter-in-law, said Friday. "It's a
>>nightmare." 
>>
>>The first reported shooting on the southern section of Interstate 270
>>or in its immediate area was in May. A second occurred in August and
>>the rest have been in the last seven weeks. 
>>
>>The shots have been fired at different times of day, piercing trucks,
>>cars, vans and pickups, shattering windows and flattening tires , and
>>killing Knisley. The vehicles hit include a UPS delivery truck, a
>>Coca-Cola truck and a horse trailer. 
>>
>>No one besides Knisley has been injured in the shootings. Two people
>>contacted authorities Friday to report earlier shootings after
>>realizing they may be part of a pattern. 
>>
>>Authorities have released few details, saying only that tests on the
>>bullets connected Knisley's shooting on Tuesday to one of the others,
>>though they wouldn't identify which one. They declined to speculate on
>>the type of weapon used. 
>>
>>Franklin County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Steve Martin said it is unclear
>>whether one shooter or more was involved. 
>>
>>"I'm not in a position where I can tell you exactly what happened,
>>whether someone was stationary or mobile when any of these shots were
>>fired," he said. 
>>
>>Authorities on Friday asked whoever is responsible to call the
>>sheriff's office. Martin also said the public should watch for changes
>>in the behavior of friends and relatives, such as missing work or
>>appointments, showing excessive interest in the shootings or changing
>>appearance. 
>>
>>Extra patrols have been assigned to the leg of the highway, also
>>called Jack Nicklaus Highway after the pro golfer from suburban
>>Dublin. The route runs through a sparsely populated area that includes
>>woods frequented by hunters and people practicing target shooting.
>>Industrial sites line part of the stretch, along with some residential
>>neighborhoods. 
>>
>>A shopping mall is nearby. 
>>
>>Edward Cable was headed home to southern Ohio through that area on
>>Nov. 21 when he heard a noise in his minivan. He found a bullet hole
>>and shell fragment about 16 inches behind the driver's seat. 
>>
>>
>>Trucker William Briggs was hauling two empty trailers back from
>>Roanoke, Va., about 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 19 when his driver's side
>>window exploded. 
>>
>>
>>Briggs had just entered I-270 from U.S. 23 and was in the center of
>>the three westbound lanes. He kept driving, assuming he had been hit
>>by a rock, and turned on his dome light to search for the stone but
>>couldn't find it. A few minutes later, stopped at a truck terminal, he
>>discovered the bullet. 
>>
>>
>>"It didn't miss my face but a couple of inches at most," said Briggs,
>>a Vietnam veteran from suburban Hilliard. "It was really luck on my
>>part and ineptness on his part." 
>>
>>
>>Knisley, a homemaker who lived about 40 miles away from Columbus,
>>didn't like to drive in the city and was being chauffeured by her
>>friend Mary Cox. After Knisley's checkup following minor surgery on
>>skin cancer lesions on her nose, the two had planned to go to lunch
>>and go Christmas shopping. 
>>
>>
>>They were talking when they heard a pop. 
>>
>>"What was that? What was that?" Knisley, 62, said before slumping
>>forward, according to the recording of Cox's 911 call. 
>>
>>Hours later Tuesday, a GMC Jimmy was hit nearby, deputies said. The
>>same day a tractor-trailer driver for Coca-Cola Co. found a hole in
>>the rear door of the trailer after making deliveries along I-270. 
>>
>>Martin said the task force has received more than 150 tips. Department
>>crime analysts also are reviewing this year's more than 1,000
>>vandalism reports to see if any fit the pattern, police spokesman Sgt.
>>Brent Mull said. 
>>
>>Some who live, work and travel through the area say they are nervous. 
>>
>>Mary Hammond, 46, whose yard is next to the highway, said Friday that
>>she and her husband are taking back roads to get to work now. "I've
>>got two kids to raise," she explained. 
>>
>>Tom Milligan, 35, of Marysville said he found himself driving faster
>>and "looking to the right and left, that's for sure. I'm not paying
>>too much attention to the road." 
>>
>>Cable, 53, is leery of returning to Columbus but said he will keep
>>making the 75-mile drive from his home in Lucasville. The retired
>>prison guard travels often to his daughter's suburban home north of
>>Columbus to help her and her husband with their construction business
>>and see his two grandsons. 
>>
>>Cable said Friday that news of the linked shootings gave him hope a
>>perpetrator would be found. 
>>
>>"They don't know exactly what they're looking for, but it gives them a
>>lot better idea and will help direct them with their investigation,"
>>he said. 
>>
>>Briggs said he drove past the site of his shooting the next night and
>>isn't afraid to travel there. "They didn't get me over there," he
>>said, referring to the Vietnam War, "they're not going to get me
>>here." 
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