Phoenix, ARIZONA — Police arrested two suspects overnight during the investigation into the serial shootings on I-10 in Phoenix.
Three suspects have been arrested, Officials confirm. All suspects are 18-years-old.
Officials say the teens damaged seven vehicles with slingshots last night but they are not the freeway shooters.
The suspects are facing charges of cirminal damage and conspiracy after they reportedly aimed slingshots at both pedestrians and vehicles in the east Valley. DPS says these arrests are not in connection to the freeway shooting case.
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On August 29, 2015, between 11:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., Arizona State troopers investigated two separate shooting incidents along Interstate 10.
The first shooting occurred eastbound along I-10, at approximately 11:03 a.m. A sport utility vehicle was fired upon and struck. The front seat passenger, a 13 year old female, sustained a cut to her right ear, and was treated on-scene by the Fire Department; she was not transported.
A shooter or shooters have been using vehicles driving on Interstate 10 in Phoenix for target practice, officials say, and at least 10 cars have been shot since last Wednesday.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety is trying to determine if the shootings are connected.
Investigators believe the shooter or shooters took multiple shots at each vehicle. Three out of the four shots went through the windshield or passenger window of the cars, according to DPS. The last shot impacted the front headlight of a commercial truck. All witnesses say they heard a loud noise or a pop after the shots had been fired.
Public Safety Colonel Milstead said there appears to be no connection between the targeted vehicles, except that they were driving on the same freeway.
A $20,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest, Arizona Director of Frank Milstead told reporters, hours after the passenger window of a car was shattered.
Police have only been able to determine that bullets were used in two of the attacks in late August. It remains unclear whether other projectiles were employed in the other seven incidents, Graves said.
