Potential sniper targeted cars traveling through Pierce County

BY MyNorthwest.com  on January 21, 2013 @ 5:32 am (Updated: 8:34 am - 1/21/13 )

A potential sniper targeted moving vehicles in Pierce County early Sunday morning, and the Washington State Patrol is still looking for their suspect.

WSP trooper Guy Gill said that two cars were struck early Sunday morning by bullets. The first car was struck on eastbound SR-16 between the Narrows bridge and Jackson Avenue around 4:15 a.m. Gill said that car may have been struck by multiple bullets.

About thirty minutes later, on northbound I-5 between 56th and 38th Streets a full-size passenger car was struck multiple times by bullets.

State patrol is unsure where the shooter may have been aiming at the cars from, but are hoping witnesses that heard the shots, or the sounds of a muzzled gun firing may be able to help pin point the location.

"If they have any information at all, anything out of the ordinary, anything suspicious a vehicle parked on the shoulder maybe a pedestrian or a maybe a muzzled shot, we'd appreciate hearing from them," said Gill.

The vehicles have been taken in by state patrol. Investigators are unsure if the incidents are related but the Pierce Country crime lab will be working on the vehicles looking at bullet fragments, trajectory and also trying to identify the caliber of the rounds that struck the car.

KIRO Radio's Frank Shiers contributed to this report.

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  • CH wrote...
    the answer to sniper is -
    January 21, 2013 5:11 am
    more guns!!
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  • SickofSeattleite wrote...
    well i feel
    January 21, 2013 5:33 am
    confidence in the police department now...
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  • deltta wrote...
    Maybe it was
    January 21, 2013 6:12 am
    Snipper fire....
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  • deltta wrote...
    Look up
    January 21, 2013 7:01 am
    Hillary Clinton and sniper fire on youtube. Pretty funny and pretty pathetic
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    Don't Blame the guns!!!
    January 21, 2013 7:07 am
    Its not the guns fault. These snipers are simply using their 2nd Amendment Right.The drivers of those cars would have been in far far more danger at a baseball or football game or at a quilting bee (correct Rational?}
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  • deltta wrote...
    101
    January 21, 2013 7:43 am
    The second doesn't give you the right to commit crime. Shouldn't you be salivating at the ignoration right now? Or did the old folks home not pay thier cable bill?
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  • William Lawn wrote...
    Probably could have done the same thing with a hammer
    January 21, 2013 7:54 am
    .
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    deltta "CRIME"?
    January 21, 2013 8:06 am
    I doubt it, these snipers were simply putting Government on notice that they will not be victims of government tyranny
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  • deltta wrote...
    101
    January 21, 2013 9:24 am
    How do you know there is more than one "sniper"? My guess is this is gang related, that it's a pistol caliber and the shooting was done from another vehicle.
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    deltta
    January 21, 2013 4:36 pm
    How do you know their wasn't?
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  • WashingtonCitizen wrote...
    320,000,000 people in the US...........or so.....
    January 21, 2013 9:00 am
    .001% of the population are total whack jobs..........for instance.... Leaves 3200 whack jobs nation-wide to do crazy things! Want to take it out to .0001%? OK. So that's 320 utter whack jobs to do crazy things! Fortunately, we have had far less than the numbers could be of these incidents in the last decade.
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  • Jeff Schroeder wrote...
    Guns don't kill people
    January 21, 2013 9:10 am
    ...cars with the tamarity to travel through the trajectory of Bullets kill people. I think it's about time we repeal the second amendment and emphasis all the others for a change..
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  • CH wrote...
    BLAWN so you got ace jackwago to answer to flounder!! you are one smart fellow!! -
    January 21, 2013 11:48 am
    and as for you xkop[fired kop, mall kop, cross walk kop?] got dope? you can D-Mail it to me!!
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  • calapete wrote...
    good one CH
    January 21, 2013 12:24 pm
    why ISN"T more guns the solution? It's the solution to every other gun story.

    oh, I know, cause there are no more guns left to buy.

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  • Cash wrote...
    Wow
    January 21, 2013 4:09 pm
    You guys are fun!
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  • dexterjibs wrote...
    Lets ban carbon
    January 21, 2013 10:49 pm
    according to libtards, carbon is killing the world. Oh wait, carbon is one of the basic elements? How can we ban it?
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  • dexterjibs wrote...
    I think the sniper is that Joe guy
    January 21, 2013 10:49 pm
    who lives down the street. He is a real caulk.
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