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JONES HAS MER ON WHAT WAS
HE HAS TARGETED 24 MOTOR
IS SPANNING ONE 00 MILES
FROM EAST OF LANCING TO
OAKLAND COUNTY SOME OF THEM
ON INTERSTATE 96 AND OTHERS
ON NEARBY MAIN DRAGS.
TONIGHT POLICE ARE
PULLING OVER CARS ENGAGED IN
SUSS PUSH SUSS ACTIVITIES AS
THEY SEARCH FOR THE SHOOTER.
AS "24 HOUR NEWS 8" KEN
KOLKER REPORTS, HE IS
JOINING A LONG LIST OF
GUNMAN.
AT LEAST TEN OVER THE
LAST 13 YEARS HAVE TARGETED
MOTORISTS AND OTHERS ACROSS
THE U.S.
Reporter: ACROSS THE
U.S., AT LEAST TEN MEN HAVE
BEEN CONVICTED IN SEVEN
SEPARATE HIGHWAY SNIPER
CASES SINCE 1999.
THEIR MOVE ITS ARE AS VARIED
AS WHERE THEY HAPPENED.
WHAT MOTIVATES STOB DO
SOMETHING THIS CRAZY IS
ANYBODY'S GUESS.
I SAY IT IS A NUT.
I USE THIS TERM IN A GENERAL
SENSE.
IT IS A PERSON THAT HAS
ISSUE.
SOMETHING HAPPENED IN THEIR
THRIVE TRIGGER THIS.
Reporter: AT LEAST IN
SHEER NUMBERS, THIS CASE IS
MOST SIMILAR TO THE OHIO
CASE IN 2003.
BOTH WITH 24 MOTORISTS
TARGET.
IN MICHIGAN ONE MOTORIST WAS
HIT.
A DELTA MAN SHOT IN THE
BUTTOCKS ON SATURDAY.
IN OHIO, ONE VICTIM DIED.
THE OHIO GUNMAN HAD BEEN
DIAGNOSED WITH PARANOID
SCHIZOPHRENIA AND HOPED THE
SHOOTINGS WOULD STOP THE
COVERAGE OF MICHAEL JACKSON.
OTHERS OPENED FIRE OUT OF
ANGER FORTRESS OR FOR
REVENGE.
THEN, THERE IS THE BELTWAY
SNIPER ATTACKS IN 2002
KILLING TEN INJURING THREE
AND PARALYZING WASHINGTON,
D.C.
POSSIBLE MOVE ITS HAVE
RANGED FROM TERRORISM TO
TARGETING WHITE PEOPLE TO A
PLOT TO KILL AN EX-WIFE.
YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW
YOU CAN COMPARE THEM TO THE
BELTWAY SNIPER OR ANY OTHER
SNIPER.
IT IS JUST DIFFERENT.
PEOPLE DO CRAZY THINGS FOR
DIFFERENT REASONS.
THAT WAS WHAT WE ARE TRYING
TO FIND OUT.
Reporter: INGHAM COUNTY
SHERIFF SAYS ONE 00 STATE,
LOCAL AND FEDERAL
INVESTIGATORS ARE WORKING
THE MICHIGAN CASE.
THEY RECEIVED MORE THAN
1,000 TIPS HELPED BY
102,000-DOLLAR REWARD.
WE PUT THE REWARD OUT
YESTERDAY THAT REALLY LIT UP
THE LINES.
THEY SAY THE SHOOTER IS
USING A HANDGUN AND IN ATH
LEAST SOME CASES IS FIRING
SHOTS WHILE IN A MOVING CAR
AT VEHICLES GOING THE
OTHERWAY.
IT IS A RISKY BUSINESS TO
SHOOT A CAR.
POLICE SAY, THEIR
COMPOSITE DRAWING WAS BASED
ON DESCRIPTION FROM ONE
VICTIM IN A PASSING CAR.
DO YOU KNOW HOW RELIABLE
THAT IS?
WELL, IT IS RELIABLE AS A
PERSON'S MEMORY WHO SAW