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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Fri Sep 11, 2015, 07:07 AM Sep 2015

Vigilantes Hunt Mystery Highway Shooter

A vigilante group is determined to hunt down the sniper terrorizing Arizona’s highways—whether the cops like it or not.

There’s 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 she’d been riding in.

But hysteria surrounding the rogue shooter reached a fever pitch this week with news of an 11th shooting—channeling 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
Fact check- sarisataka Sep 2015 #1
best of luck to them... ileus Sep 2015 #2
So, if one of these citizens leads authorities to apprehend the sniper(s) -- Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2015 #3

sarisataka

(21,007 posts)
1. Fact check-
Fri Sep 11, 2015, 08:42 AM
Sep 2015

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.

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)
3. So, if one of these citizens leads authorities to apprehend the sniper(s) --
Fri Sep 11, 2015, 05:12 PM
Sep 2015

will the author demand the sniper(s) be released?

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