11 in 11: USA Highways Report Multiple Shootings

Someone is going to be killed, soon, in a highway shootings. The handwriting is all over this one.

We've seen times like this before. Highway shooters and snipers targeting apparently random individuals from along roadways, hillsides, and who knows where.

In the case of the Beltway Snipers of October 2002, the hidden agenda may have been that the wife of one of the shooters was going to be killed or, to the AfricanAmerican conspiracy theorists, it was that the high profile Kenneth Bridges was the covert target. (See, "Snipers Fall," Chapter 3 of The Copycat Effect.)

Who will be the person killed in the distractions of all the highway shootings happening now?

The media, in early September 2015, has focussed on I-10, near Phoenix, Arizona. "Eleven shootings in 11 days" read reporters on their newscasts, and the news headlines on September 10, 2015, told us "Phoenix Sniper Strikes Again: Arizona Cops Confirm 11th Freeway Shooting."

CNN proclaimed "Phoenix Interstate-10 shootings: Copycat may have struck."

"11 shootings in 11 days along busy Phoenix highway," says the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

But beyond Arizona, did you realize that during the end of August and September 2015, car shootings have taken place in Ohio (Akron, Cleveland, Cincinnati), North Carolina (Durham, East Charlotte), and Michigan (near Grand Rapids), in addition to the Arizona shootings along Phoenix's I-10?

Two vehicles, a commercial truck and a car, were shot about 3:20 a.m. Tuesday, September 1st, on Ohio 8 in Akron. A 35-year-old man in a car was hit in the leg. Witnesses told police the gunman fired shots from an SUV driving in the same direction.

In Cleveland, Ohio, an officer reported that someone shot at his police van about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, August 29, 2015, as he drove along St. Clair Avenue between East 140th and East 148th streets. The officer reported hearing two shots fired.

Shortly before midnight on Sunday, August 30, 2015, a car was shot by someone traveling in another car as they drove along I-75, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Three people were shot, including one who was severely injured from shots fired from a rifle. The passengers in the car that was hit were on their way to a nightclub.

 
In southwestern Michigan, at least five cars were struck by what investigators believe were bullets from between July 29 and Aug. 21, CNN reported. Most of those shootings — on I-94 and I-69 in Calhoun County — happened during the daytime, according to Channel 8 in Grand Rapids. No one was injured, but police believe the shootings are related. 

In Durham, North Carolina, a man was shot in his torso about 3:30 a.m. Saturday, August 29, 2015, according to WRAL-TV. A woman riding in the passenger seat was shot in the leg. 

In East Charlotte, North Carolina, a man driving about 6 p.m. Saturday, August 29, 2015, was shot. The man told WSOC-TV that the shooter's car swerved up behind his car, then fired one shot that hit his car. 

And, as you know, in Phoenix, Arizona, someone or some people have shot at 11 cars driving on Interstate 10, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety. One injury, a 13-year-old girl suffered a cut to her right ear occurred. 

Expect more.

In April 2015, there was a shooter or shooters along highways in Colorado.

With the Phoenix media attention, needless to say, there will be copycats. And it will get deadly. Killers have tended to hide their true motives in the midst of waves of shootings like these.

Where is all of this leading? I'm afraid to say someone is going to be killed on a highway from a mystery sniper, if the past is any indication.

See also:

The I-81 Killer

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Death on the Obama Campaign Trail ~ Again

Four generations of Ann Harris' family (from left) Andrea Hubbard, Deanna Hubbard, Ann Harris, (owner of Ann's Place) Wilma Parsons and Kamari Durant pose for a photo after being visited by President Barack Obama when he stopped at Ann's Place 24 Hour Restaurant, 1604 S. Hawkins Ave, Akron, Ohio, on Friday, July 6, 2012. The restaurant owner Ann Harris, 70 (see here), was taken by ambulance to Akron General Medical Center after complaining of fatigue and a tingling feeling following Obama's visit. By 11:18 a.m., she was pronounced dead from an apparent heart attack. (Paul Tople/Akron Beacon Journal)

Photo by Taylor NaShay.

Harris met -- and hugged -- Obama just after 8:00 a.m., when he stopped in unannounced for breakfast.

Obama enjoyed a breakfast of eggs, bacon and whole wheat toast - plus grits at the suggestion of Toni Watkins, a waitress for 23 years at Ann’s Place. The White House said the president ate with three long-time Goodyear workers -- Rick Nixon, Jim DiFalco and Keith Ross, according to ABC News.

For more on the Watts/Watkins name game, click and read here.

Barack Obama's grandmother, whose personality and bearing shaped much of the life of the Democratic presidential contender, died, Obama announced one day before the 2008 election. Madelyn Payne Dunham was 86 and died late Sunday, November 2, 2008.
Aferrismoon writes in noting, "It has happened before."


Indeed, it has and was covered here at the Twilight Language blog.

Felipe Solis Olguin, the director for the 

Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City, 

stands before a large Aztec sculpture. Photo: Robert van der Hilst.

On April 16, 2009, Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist, was with President Barack Obama at a gala dinner at the museum and showed Obama around the Mexico City's anthropology museum. Then, Solis died the next day from "flu-like symptoms." Officially, it was called "pneumonia," but unofficially, Solis died of swine flu.

Solis, of course, means "sun, solar."

See "Obama & Flu Death," to be found at TL on April 26, 2009.

Zachary Taylor became a war hero when he defended Fort Harrison during the War of 1812, and in other engagements. The 12th President of the United States, Zachary Taylor died on July 9, 1850, of cholera after eating tainted cherries and milk in the middle of the summer.

On January 8, 1992, President Bush became ill during a state dinner in Japan and vomited on Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi. Due to that incident, Saturday Night Live then did a skit of the event.

  

Dining comes into play here, it seems. Another famous diner owned by a Harris, Caroline, is the Harris Steakhouse on Main Street, Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The location was first associated with death when the Silver Bridge collapsed, and the diner's then-husband died in that tragedy in December 1967. This diner was used as the model for the diner in The Mothman Prophecies (2002), and today is sometimes called the "Mothman Diner."