First Colorado, now Arizona, has a serial freeway shooter on the loose -- could it be the same deranged gunman?
This spring, Colorado’s highway patrol began receiving emergency calls from motorists who said they’d been shot, or shot at, while driving on a certain stretch of Interstate 25.
One or two victims had been wounded in the ambushes, while others -- including sheriff’s deputies transporting a prisoner -- merely had their windows blasted out, or their vehicles riddled with bullet holes.
Despite alerts and APBs, Colorado’s I-25 sniper has never been apprehended, nor a person-of-interest or a suspect even identified for the serial sniping.
But now Arizona authorities are investigating nearly a dozen similar incidents staged in as many days on some well-traveled routes outside of Phoenix, such as I-10, Loop 22 and Route 51.
That’s prompted state officials there to quadruple the reward they’ve been offering since late August for information which leads to the arrest and prosecution of the unknown armed highwayman.
As with Colorado’s indiscriminate shooter, both civilian cars and cop cruisers have been targeted for bullet spray on Arizonan freeways, although in neither shooting spree has anyone actually been murdered.
At this rate, however, “it’s just a matter of time before there is a tragedy,” an Arizona law-enforcement spokesman told reporters for Reuters and the Associated Press today.
Colorado and Arizona thinly border each other and share some major interstates as well … it’s not clear if authorities in either state have made the connection yet that they probably hunting for the same criminal.
Eponymous Rox
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