Shootings At Vehicles Continue In Phoenix

Published September 11, 2015 at 1:12 PM EDT

Arizona Department of Public Safety officers inspect a tractor trailer with a bullet hole in the passenger door shortly after it was shot near 67th Ave and I-10, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015 in Phoenix. Numerous shootings of vehicles along I-10 over the past two weeks have investigators working around the clock to find a suspect in a spate of recent Phoenix freeway shootings that have rattled nerves and heightened fears of a possible serial shooter. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Phoenix police have confirmed 11 shootings along a short stretch of the city’s Interstate 10 and surrounding roadways. There has been just one injury – a girl hit by shattered glass.

The shootings started in August and reports of shootings continue to come in. Here & Now’s Robin Young speaks with Peter O’Dowd in Phoenix about the investigation and how the community is reacting.

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Peter O’Dowd, assistant managing editor at Here & Now. He tweets @odowdpeter.

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