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Police Release Composite Sketch of Possible Sniper Suspect
Aired August 22, 2003 - 13:05 ET
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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Now to the West Virginia sniper shootings. Investigators released a composite sketch of a man they want to talk to in the case; this, after coming up with proof they need to link all three of last week's killings.
CNN investigative correspondent Art Harris explains.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ART HARRIS, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A young mother at a gas station, a father buying milk, a mechanic using this pay phone, all murder victims, now bound together by one final ballistics report.
CHIEF JERRY PAULEY, CHARLESTON POLICE: It does positively link the three bullets together. They all three came from the same weapon.
HARRIS: Three shots out of the dark, fired from a rifle.
PAULEY: They were all .22-caliber, some type of rifle. That's all we know at this time.
HARRIS: The last test tied in the first murder -- that of 44- year-old Gary Carrier, shot down 12 nights ago while talking on a gas station phone. Any evidence of drug connections?
PAULEY: No.
HARRIS: A one-word answer, undercutting previous hints that this sniper mystery in Charleston, West Virginia, may somehow be drug- related.
Police are still looking for a large, dark pickup truck. This animation recreates such a truck stopped at another shooting scene. But there is no link between a truck and the Gary Carrier murder.
PAULEY: No, we didn't have any indication of a vehicle at all at our Go-Mart in the city.
HARRIS: Overnight, investigators released this sketch of a man, who witnesses say is the driver of a dark pickup spotted at the location of the last two murders a week ago.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
HARRIS: Since the sketch was released last night, police say their phones have been ringing with callers saying they recognized the man and providing dozens of different names to be checked out -- from friends to acquaintances to even one known criminal -- Miles.
O'BRIEN: Art, bring us up-to-date on that shooting, where nobody was struck. Was there any slugs recovered there? And is there a possibility it might, in fact, be linked?
HARRIS: The teenage girl who reported that told local police that she heard a ricochet, but no bullet fragments have been recovered.
On another note there, you'll remember, a deputy actually gave chase to a dark pickup that she said had stopped before the shots were fired. Well, the reason that police picked up that car and gave chase was because the driver of that pickup truck went through a radar gun at 85 miles an hour, but got away -- Miles.
O'BRIEN: All right, Art Harris in Charleston, West Virginia, thanks very much.
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Aired August 22, 2003 - 13:05 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Now to the West Virginia sniper shootings. Investigators released a composite sketch of a man they want to talk to in the case; this, after coming up with proof they need to link all three of last week's killings.
CNN investigative correspondent Art Harris explains.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ART HARRIS, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A young mother at a gas station, a father buying milk, a mechanic using this pay phone, all murder victims, now bound together by one final ballistics report.
CHIEF JERRY PAULEY, CHARLESTON POLICE: It does positively link the three bullets together. They all three came from the same weapon.
HARRIS: Three shots out of the dark, fired from a rifle.
PAULEY: They were all .22-caliber, some type of rifle. That's all we know at this time.
HARRIS: The last test tied in the first murder -- that of 44- year-old Gary Carrier, shot down 12 nights ago while talking on a gas station phone. Any evidence of drug connections?
PAULEY: No.
HARRIS: A one-word answer, undercutting previous hints that this sniper mystery in Charleston, West Virginia, may somehow be drug- related.
Police are still looking for a large, dark pickup truck. This animation recreates such a truck stopped at another shooting scene. But there is no link between a truck and the Gary Carrier murder.
PAULEY: No, we didn't have any indication of a vehicle at all at our Go-Mart in the city.
HARRIS: Overnight, investigators released this sketch of a man, who witnesses say is the driver of a dark pickup spotted at the location of the last two murders a week ago.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
HARRIS: Since the sketch was released last night, police say their phones have been ringing with callers saying they recognized the man and providing dozens of different names to be checked out -- from friends to acquaintances to even one known criminal -- Miles.
O'BRIEN: Art, bring us up-to-date on that shooting, where nobody was struck. Was there any slugs recovered there? And is there a possibility it might, in fact, be linked?
HARRIS: The teenage girl who reported that told local police that she heard a ricochet, but no bullet fragments have been recovered.
On another note there, you'll remember, a deputy actually gave chase to a dark pickup that she said had stopped before the shots were fired. Well, the reason that police picked up that car and gave chase was because the driver of that pickup truck went through a radar gun at 85 miles an hour, but got away -- Miles.
O'BRIEN: All right, Art Harris in Charleston, West Virginia, thanks very much.
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