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

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> Ohio Police Link Two Highway Shootings
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> 11/28/2003
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> By JOHN McCARTHY, Associated Press Writer
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> "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."
>
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> 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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