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Related: About this forumVigilantes Hunt Mystery Highway Shooter
A vigilante group is determined to hunt down the sniper terrorizing Arizonas highwayswhether the cops like it or not.
Theres a serial sniper with a wild trigger finger on the loose in Phoenix. The attacker has been randomly shooting at drivers since August, firing bullets and projectiles at cars, trucks, and busses zipping by on major Arizona highways.
So far, the only injury involved a 13-year-old girl, whose ear was sliced two weeks ago by glass shards after a bullet struck the windshield of the SUV shed been riding in.
But hysteria surrounding the rogue shooter reached a fever pitch this week with news of an 11th shootingchanneling jitters from over a decade ago when the Beltway Snipers, made up of a deadly father-son duo, slayed or injured 27 bystanders on highways around Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. before they were caught and convicted.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/11/vigilantes-hunt-mystery-highway-shooter.html
Theres a serial sniper with a wild trigger finger on the loose in Phoenix. The attacker has been randomly shooting at drivers since August, firing bullets and projectiles at cars, trucks, and busses zipping by on major Arizona highways.
So far, the only injury involved a 13-year-old girl, whose ear was sliced two weeks ago by glass shards after a bullet struck the windshield of the SUV shed been riding in.
But hysteria surrounding the rogue shooter reached a fever pitch this week with news of an 11th shootingchanneling jitters from over a decade ago when the Beltway Snipers, made up of a deadly father-son duo, slayed or injured 27 bystanders on highways around Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. before they were caught and convicted.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/11/vigilantes-hunt-mystery-highway-shooter.html
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Vigilantes Hunt Mystery Highway Shooter (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Sep 2015
OP
So, if one of these citizens leads authorities to apprehend the sniper(s) --
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2015
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sarisataka
(18,792 posts)1. Fact check-
to include such a glaring, and easily checked, error, that the DC sniper was a father son duo, Cqlls into question the truthfulness of every statement in the article, thus rendering it worthless.
ileus
(15,396 posts)2. best of luck to them...
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)3. So, if one of these citizens leads authorities to apprehend the sniper(s) --
will the author demand the sniper(s) be released?