(I-65) Sniper-style shooting leaves 1 dead, 1 injured in southern Indiana

[Roland99]

http://www.whas11.com/topstories/stories/072306cckkWHAS11shootings.153a67ac.html

Northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 65, between mile markers 50 and 64, were shut down for a couple of hours Sunday due to a reported highway shooting.

Indiana State Police reported that one person was killed and another person suffered non life-threatening injuries following the sniper-style shootings.

Indiana State Police at Seymour received a 911 call of a shooting around 12:23 a.m.

As this initial investigation was under way, the Seymour City Police Department received a call from the Shell Gas Station, located just off I-65, reporting that another vehicle had been shot.

yikes.

[laylah]

1. WTF

is wrong with people? Even at 55 years young, some things just never cease to amaze me~

Jenn

[xultar]

2. WTF. I'm right near there right now. I have to get on 65 to get to

Chicago!!!

[Roland99]

4. Might want to head west and take US 41 north

:scared:

[xultar]

5. I was just over there yesterday...I took 30 to Torrence ave.

[Roland99]

6. I use I-65 every day to go to work but that's just across the river from

Louisville, 45-50 miles south.

[salin]

11. or take backroads to 37 north

to Indy, then to 65 to Chicago.

You would be welcomed to stop for coffee in B-ton in the way! :hi:

[Roland99]

3. 1st shooting took place at mm52; 2nd took place at a nearby Shell station

in Seymour.


Just reported on local TV

[Roland99]

7. Hey, remember this Homeland Security news about Indiana???

http://www.news-tribune.net/opinion/local_story_203162837.html?keyword=secondarystory

[gratuitous]

8. Oh, but this isn't a terrorist attack on American soil

Because the mighty George Dubya is fightin' the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them over here. If there's a terrorist attack on American soil, like, you know, the DC sniper or the anthrax killer, then those must not be terrorist attacks.

[AnOhioan]

9. Same thing happened in Ohio a year or so ago.

They eventually caught the guy....charged him with murder.

[Roland99]

14. Yeah, that was in and around Columbus, OH

[Renew Deal]

10. What do they call it? The ultimate hunt?

It seems to be popular these days.

[salin]

12. Story made me think of another Hoosier news story from last week:

from conservative Bedford, of all places: http://www.tmnews.com/articles/2006/07/20/sections/opinion/opinion10.txt

[Roland99]

13. Update: Local news confirmed a 3rd shooting and possibly a 4th!!

no word on add'l injuries but a semi truck and a car were shot.

Apparently, the other two shootings were in Delaware County, IN (Northeastern IN, quite a ways away from the original shootings)



I-65 now re-opened b/t mm 50 and 64.

[salin]

15. Any idea how far this is from Columbus, IN?

have family that I believe was possibly traveling south on that route this weekend.

[Roland99]

16. Columbus, IN is about 20 miles north of Seymour.

Seymour is where the 1st shootings occurred.


Not known if the two shooting incidents (Seymour and Delaware County) were related.

[salin]

17. Not sure which is worse - if the shootings were or were not related.

Folks have gone bat-sh*t crazy in this state.

[Roland99]

18. Other shootings were along I-69 NE of Indy

http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=5185711

"Right now, we haven't made a determination whether it's one person or how many people are involved," Goodin said.

Police also were investigating two other shootings along Interstate 69 about 50 miles northeast of Indianapolis. No one was hurt.

State police at Redkey received a report about 2:30 a.m. that a semitrailer was struck near Muncie. About an hour later, a shot struck a parked, unattended vehicle.

"At this time it is unknown whether the shootings in the Seymour and Redkey area are related," Goodin said.

[drm604]

19. Anyone remember the Beltway sniper attacks?

Beltway Sniper Attacks

[Roland99]

20. Oh yeah. News has mentioned that.

Still no leads afaik nor much more info on the two separate (but linked?) incidents.

[slackmaster]

27. Are they looking for a white van driven by a white middle-aged man yet?

Got to start somewhere.

[HughBeaumont]

25. Two people in that debacle were shot dead . . ..

within a mile radius of where my sister lives (Silver Spring, MD). It was scary shit to have your sister be a moving target for two months.

[MrBenchley]

21. Worth noting the GOP in Indiana

at the request of the loony-tunes at the NRA just handed out lifetime gun permits to armed Hoosiers and passed a law letting anyone who "feels threatened" get away with murder.

http://www.gunguys.com/?p=1262

http://www.gunguys.com/?p=875

[slackmaster]

23. Neither of which are in any way related to the topic of the thread

Indiana House Bill 1028 didn't materially change anything BTW. It only clarified that when one is attacked in one's home, car, etc. there is no duty to retreat. Just as has been the case in California and most other states for a long, long time.

http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1028.1.html - See the bold and strike-out type for what 1028 actually changed.

[gorbal]

22. With everything that is going on in the world

I wouldn't doubt it if the violent energy spilled over to here. Whether or not it is terrorist related, tensions are pretty high worldwide.

[Roland99]

28. Anyone know the DATES the Beltway and Columbus, OH snipers started

or were caught?

[bleedingheart]

24. I always wonder what makes people so crazy that the think it is okay

to shoot at people at random???

what is wrong with this person(s) that they think this is fun or cool???

[slackmaster]

26. "People" don't think it's OK to do that

We're talking about one deranged nutball here.

:eyes:

what is wrong with this person(s) that they think this is fun or cool???

Becasue he or she is a deranged nutball, perhaps?

[bleedingheart]

29. I am just wondering aloud...someone raised this "nutball"...

so is this nutball a product of crazies or did this person just snap and think that using other folks as target practice would be a grand idea?

It is sick all the way around...

[slackmaster]

30. The nutball will have to be captured alive before an answer is possible

Lots of things can cause people to lose their humanity, including but not limited to their upbringing, substance abuse, and organic brain disorders.

[dflprincess]

31. I was in southern Indiana a month ago -

is this in the area where someone has put up the progun signs that, ala the Burma Shave signs, have some kind of poem printed on several signs and the last one says www.gunssavelife.com?

[DemReadingDU]

32. Seymour is my home town!

My family still lives there. Hope this person (or persons) caught soon.


P.S. I went to the same high school there as John Mellencamp.