New Sniper in Midwest(First sniper caught, new sniper 7/27)

[Sean Osborne]

A new sniper in the midwest has killed two people on I-65. Watching this carefully.

Also .gov and .mil intel people are working 24/7 - it's fan hitting time.

[American Patriot]

been watching it a couple days now. No information on the bullets yet

[Malsua]

The attack was on two pickup trucks, an SUV and a tractor trailer.

Eco-nut?

-Mal

[American Patriot]

According to what I heard last night, the two attacks were over 100 miles apart too.

[Ryan Ruck]

Just heard on the radio that there has been a 17 year old arrested by the police in relation to this.

Mal could be right on target! Brainwashed 17 year old eco-nut...

[Jag]

Pickup truck shot at in Hammond, Ind.

HAMMOND, Ind., July 25 (UPI) -- Indiana State Police are investigating an apparent sniper shooting of a pickup on a highway overpass near Hammond in northwest Indiana early Tuesday.
The driver of black Dodge Ram pickup said he saw a man in a trench coat emerge from a grassy area off I-65, pull out a long rifle and start firing.
The apparent sniper-style shooting occurred at 169th Avenue and Kline Avenue near Hammond. Police were searching the area for evidence.
"We are comparing notes to see, A: If it's related, and B: If it is a copycat." Mike Higgins, spokesman for the Lake County Sheriff's Police Department, told WFLD-TV, Chicago.
The rear window of the truck was shattered but the motorist was unhurt, WMAQ-TV, Chicago, reported.
Higgins said the suspect was a white male, possibly with facial hair.

http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?St...5-012823-7414r

Jag

[Neue Regel]

As Rick said above, I still haven't seen anything about there being recovered bullet fragments or casings. I would expect him smart enough to pick up spent rounds, but the bullets are out there somewhere. Excruciatingly tedious recovery work, no doubt.

[samizdat]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/25/D8J3ABKG0.html
A 17-year-old confessed Tuesday to committing a series of highway shootings that killed one man, wounded another and damaged at least four vehicles, authorities said.
Zachariah Blanton was arrested earlier in the day and was jailed in Jackson County. He faced preliminary charges of murder, attempted murder and criminal recklessness, prosecutor Stephen Pierson said.

Blanton, of Gaston, admitted to the sniper shootings during questioning by investigators, but a motive was unclear, State Police Superintendent Paul Whitesell said. It was not immediately known whether Blanton had an attorney.
Blanton came to the attention of investigators late Monday after an acquaintance told a Delaware County deputy that the teen might be involved in the shootings, Whitesell said. Detectives then searched Blanton's home and found a rifle of the same caliber used in the shootings.
"The weapon we obtained was precisely what we were looking for," Whitesell said.
Blanton's great-aunt told The Star Press of Muncie that she was shocked by the allegations against him. "I can't imagine that he would be involved," Denise Blanton said.
The two sniper victims were hit early Sunday as they rode in pickup trucks on Interstate 65 near Seymour, south of Indianapolis.
About two hours later, bullets struck a moving tractor-trailer and a parked sport-utility vehicle on I-69 in Delaware County, about 100 miles to the northeast near Blanton's home. No one was hurt in those shootings.
The FBI joined the investigation Monday as investigators searched fields, overpasses and roads looking for evidence. Detectives from Columbus, Ohio, who helped solve that city's 2003 and 2004 sniper shootings also traveled to Indiana to help.
Gov. Mitch Daniels praised law enforcement officers Tuesday for quickly apprehending a suspect. "Indiana has been spared the sort of fear, uncertainty and disruption and that has befallen other jurisdictions elsewhere," he said during a news conference in Indianapolis.

[Brian Baldwin]

Watch the media and such blame TV, Video games, or D&D for this boy's crimes.

[Malsua]

My guess, he's a mush minded anti-capitalist/Enviro-nut. A friend turned him in. The same friend, I would guess that holds ELF meetings where they agree to "bring it all down" but don't kill anyone. Kid killed someone so they turned him in.

-Mal

[Malsua]

And another one...

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/sniper27.html

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Indiana hit by sniper again

July 27, 2006
BY ANDREW HERRMANN STAFF REPORTER

A motorist in Northwest Indiana said she was shot at while driving this morning — the second reported sniper attack in a week.
The driver and her passenger were not injured, a spokesman for the Lake County (Ind.) police said.


Spokesman Mike Higgins said it was too early to tell if the two shootings — the other occurred Tuesday morning — are related.
In this morning’s incident, the woman’s car was shot around 9 a.m. as she was driving Interstate-80/94 at Cline Avenue, at the Hammond-Gary border. The woman said she did not see who shot at her vehicle, said Higgins.


In the Tuesday shooting, the victim said he saw a man in a trench coat fire at his pickup truck as he drove on 169th near Cline.


The woman, from Dyer, was traveling east in the middle lane of the expressway, approaching Cline Avenue. She had just commented to the passenger about the lack of traffic on the road, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office. There were no vehicles in front of her or around her 2005 Ford SUV, sheriff’s police said.
The unidentified woman continued on her trip to Michigan, said Higgins.


Indiana motorists have been on edge this week after a handful of such highway shootings, one of which killed a man on Sunday near Seymour, about 50 miles south of Indianapolis. Police have arrested A 17-year-old Gaston high school student, Zachariah Blanton, in that death.

[Neue Regel]

Apparently the teen argued with family members while deer hunting over gutting the deer. (???) Took pot-shots at passing vehicled "to relieve pressure".

No eco-nut, just an emotionally immature teenager with "Angry Young Man Syndrome" and exceptionally poor decision making skills. Now he's looking at life in jail.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm..._sniper27.html

Indiana teen charged in highway shootings

By RICK CALLAHAN
The Associated Press

Zachariah Blanton, 17, pleaded not guilty in the Indiana shootings.

BROWNSTOWN, Ind. — A teenager accused of killing a man and wounding another in a series of highway shootings had argued with relatives during a hunting trip and drove off in anger shortly before the attacks, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Zachariah Blanton, 17, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of murder, attempted murder and three counts of criminal recklessness. He stared at the sidewalk as officers led him into the Jackson County Courthouse where Circuit Judge William Vance set a tentative Dec. 13 trial date.
Blanton could face life in prison without parole.
Police believe after the hunting-trip argument, Blanton drove to a nearby overpass outside Seymour early Sunday, aimed his rifle over the trunk of his vehicle and fired at trucks on Interstate 65 about 60 miles south of Indianapolis.
One bullet killed a passenger in a pickup and another wounded a man. Two hours later, a tractor-trailer and an unoccupied sport-utility vehicle were hit by bullets about 100 miles to the north, close to the teenager's hometown of Gaston.
"He said he, in fact, did do the shootings, however, only with the intention of relieving pressure," John Kelly, an Indiana State Police crime-scene technician, testified at a hearing Tuesday.
The teen apparently had been arguing with relatives over gutting a deer during a hunting trip about 20 miles south of Seymour, said Jackson County Prosecutor Stephen Pierson.
When investigators questioned him Tuesday after receiving a tip that he might have been involved, his demeanor was "cooperative, it was remorseful," said Sheriff George Sheridan Jr. of Delaware County, where the second set of shootings occurred.
The teen lives with his grandparents in Gaston, where detectives found the rifle they believe was used in the shootings, authorities said. Blanton's grandmother, Patricia Blanton, 58, was charged Tuesday with obstruction of justice.
Sheridan said the charge against Patricia Blanton was related to the rifle, but he did not provide details.
Zachariah Blanton came to the attention of investigators Monday after an acquaintance told a Delaware County reserve deputy that the teen might be involved in the shootings, State Police Superintendent Paul Whitesell said. Pierson said police had recovered a rifle they believed was used in the shooting death of Jerry L. Ross, 40, of New Albany.