2 killed, 1 hurt in Dallas-area road shootings

by Dave Keating | December 23, 2008 at 06:38 am

68 views | 0 Recommendations | 0 comments

Police in Dallas are scouring the city today looking for a gunman in a pickup truck who killed people seemingly at random during rush hour yesterday. The crime is reminiscient of the DC-area sniper shootings a few years ago.

Authorities pressed a manhunt Tuesday for a gunman in a pickup truck who is suspected of killing two people and injuring another in a series of rush hour shootings on Dallas-area roads.

The suspect was last seen Monday evening heading west on Interstate 635, which loops Dallas and connects to other interstates, said Sgt. Gil Cerda, a Dallas police spokesman.

The shootings happened within minutes of each other. Afterward, rush hour traffic slowed along the highway as police shut down all westbound lanes of 635 east of the shooting scenes for several hours.

"I'm getting shot at! I think I'm shot!" the injured big rig driver said in a radio call to his employer, according to a report by The Dallas Morning News.

The employer, Jesse Medford, terminal manager with Dugan Truck Line, told the newspaper that he instructed his driver to pull over, and Medford then called 911.