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Police in Ohio Saying Shooter Getting More Brazen
Aired February 10, 2004 - 08:09 ET
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SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Police in Ohio say the shooter who is terrorizing drivers in the Columbus area is getting more brazen. The most recent attacks have been further southwest of Columbus, along Interstate 71. Now officials are asking the shooter to call them.
Jeff Flock in Columbus for us this morning -- hey, Jeff, good morning.
JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Soledad, good morning to you.
If they begin to sound a little desperate here, maybe they are getting a little desperate, asking the shooter to call them or perhaps write to the sheriff's office. You know, the sheriffs yesterday put out this grid of all of the different, 23 now, shootings. The ones in yellow that you see there are ones that have been linked ballistically.
But if you look through all of this information and all of the data from each of the incidents, it's different victims. It's different times of the day. The ones over the weekend, for example, for the first time, shootings in broad daylight, at 11:20 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Different victims. It was a white van. It was a brown Mercedes. In the white van, four white women; in the brown Mercedes, one black man.
There is no pattern. And all of that, according to the sheriff's deputy we talked to yesterday, is making this very, very difficult to solve.
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CHIEF DEP. STEVE MARTIN, FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: These freeway shootings and these types of shootings are a new phenomenon for us and unlike a serial murderer, for example, where that individual would specifically target a particular type of victim, we don't have this. As we have told you in the past, we're all of a page on this thing. You know, we have everything that's shot from a semi truck to a minivan. And we do not think that there is a pattern. We think this is random.
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FLOCK: Soledad, about the only good news that came out of yesterday is the notion that they have a description now of the person, and that has apparently sparked a number of additional calls to the tip line. They tell us since the Sunday shootings and that description that went out of a white male 30 to 40 years old, medium in build, they've got a hundred plus new tips that have come into the tip line. So maybe that holds the prospect that at some point they get their man -- Soledad.
O'BRIEN: That is good news, especially when you consider just how vague that tip really is. I mean a man, a white man between 30 and 40, not much to go on.
FLOCK: True.
O'BRIEN: So that's good news that it's spurring some new information.
Jeff Flock for us this morning.
Jeff, thank you.
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Aired February 10, 2004 - 08:09 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Police in Ohio say the shooter who is terrorizing drivers in the Columbus area is getting more brazen. The most recent attacks have been further southwest of Columbus, along Interstate 71. Now officials are asking the shooter to call them.
Jeff Flock in Columbus for us this morning -- hey, Jeff, good morning.
JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Soledad, good morning to you.
If they begin to sound a little desperate here, maybe they are getting a little desperate, asking the shooter to call them or perhaps write to the sheriff's office. You know, the sheriffs yesterday put out this grid of all of the different, 23 now, shootings. The ones in yellow that you see there are ones that have been linked ballistically.
But if you look through all of this information and all of the data from each of the incidents, it's different victims. It's different times of the day. The ones over the weekend, for example, for the first time, shootings in broad daylight, at 11:20 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Different victims. It was a white van. It was a brown Mercedes. In the white van, four white women; in the brown Mercedes, one black man.
There is no pattern. And all of that, according to the sheriff's deputy we talked to yesterday, is making this very, very difficult to solve.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CHIEF DEP. STEVE MARTIN, FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: These freeway shootings and these types of shootings are a new phenomenon for us and unlike a serial murderer, for example, where that individual would specifically target a particular type of victim, we don't have this. As we have told you in the past, we're all of a page on this thing. You know, we have everything that's shot from a semi truck to a minivan. And we do not think that there is a pattern. We think this is random.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FLOCK: Soledad, about the only good news that came out of yesterday is the notion that they have a description now of the person, and that has apparently sparked a number of additional calls to the tip line. They tell us since the Sunday shootings and that description that went out of a white male 30 to 40 years old, medium in build, they've got a hundred plus new tips that have come into the tip line. So maybe that holds the prospect that at some point they get their man -- Soledad.
O'BRIEN: That is good news, especially when you consider just how vague that tip really is. I mean a man, a white man between 30 and 40, not much to go on.
FLOCK: True.
O'BRIEN: So that's good news that it's spurring some new information.
Jeff Flock for us this morning.
Jeff, thank you.
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