Get Organized And Get All The Help Possible Advises Michigan Cop On Arizona Freeway Shootings
DETROIT (WWJ) - Authorities in Arizona are checking out another two possible shootings on a Phoenix-area freeway, the 11th incident in the state in the past two weeks.
It's a stark reminder to Wixom Police Lt. Ron Moore who helped to catch Raulie Casteel, the I-96 freeway shooter, who terrorized motorists in four counties back in 2012.
Moore tells WWJ's Sandra McNeill that it was a trying time.
Moore's advice to Phoenix: seek as much help as possible and get organized quickly.
"Our incidents took place over four counties so we had assistance from the four county sheriff's departments, the Michigan State Police, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the FBI as well as multiple police departments from cities, townships, villages and even campus police," he says.
"In my personal life, I've had people come up to me and say 'I'm terrified, We don't, we won't drive down Wixom Road,'" says Moore.
Moore says all but one of the shootings took place on surface streets and for the three weeks Casteel was at large, many motorists were afraid to drive their usual routes.
In March, several people were in a car traveling along westbound I-94 near Mt. Elliott St. in Detroit around 1:30 a.m. when shots rang out and the driver was struck according to Michigan State Police.
"They managed to drive themselves up to the hospital so they kinda used their head to get out of the situation that they were in at the time that it happened," Shaw said. "It was very minor injuries, they were treated and released at the hospital."
No one has been seriously hurt in the Arizona shootings, although one bullet shattered a windshield and broken glass cut a 13-year-old girl.
