NBC News – by SHAMAR WALTERS and ALEXANDER SMITH
Three people were arrested in connection with two new shootings on Interstate 10 in Arizona on Sunday, according to officials.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety said in a statement that the incidents, which both occurred in the Phoenix area, were not connected to a spate of almost a dozen shootings on or near the same freeway in August and September.
The new incidents both happened early Sunday morning. A passenger was twice seen firing a handgun out of the window of a black sedan on the highway, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said in a statement.
On the second report of gunfire, a police helicopter was able to track the sedan to an apartment complex and officers from the Phoenix Police Department arrived and immediately apprehended two suspects, the statement said. A third suspect was taken into custody 45 minutes later, it added.
Police later found that another vehicle had been shot during the incident. The round, which was still embedded in the vehicle, was seized as evidence, according to police.
Charges and booking for the three suspects were pending further investigation.
Police said there was “no link at this point” between Sunday’s “isolated” incident and a spate of 11 similar shootings on and around Interstate 10 over a two-week period.
Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., 21, has pleaded not guilty to being involved in four of the incidents. Authorities believe copycats are responsible for the remaining seven.
Random acts of violence are usually carried out by people with absolutely nothing to lose, or people with no fear of prosecution.
These sound like the “nothing to lose” type of random shootings, and you should probably expect a lot more of them as the bankers grind away at our economy. (actually, the grinding is already done, and now we’re being squeezed into sausage casing)
‘Police said there was “no link at this point” between Sunday’s “isolated” incident and a spate of 11 similar shootings on and around Interstate 10 over a two-week period.’
‘Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., 21, has pleaded not guilty to being involved in four of the incidents. Authorities believe copycats are responsible for the remaining seven.’
So they are still prosecuting their innocent patsy from the 1st string of shootings? And say this is just copycats? BS, this looks more like the same guys doing the shootings and just took some time off to let the heat die down. But the cops can’t admit they were wrong about the 1st guy, oh no, no, no.
“A passenger was twice seen firing a handgun out of the window of a black sedan on the highway,…”
What, he just assumed no one would notice?
Another t.v. ‘programmed’ moron incarcerated. Likely not for long enough, unfortunately.