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DETROIT - Clues appear to be few: slugs and bullet fragments embedded in cars, metal casings on roadways, a simple, black-and-white sketch of the shooter and vague descriptions of the car he drove.
Investigators searching for a man who has shot at two dozen vehicles along freeway corridors in four counties are up against anonymity and a 100-mile-long crime scene that slices through suburbia, shopping malls and Michigan farm pastures.
Fear has prompted some to drive along side streets rather than heavily used thoroughfares. In Wixom - where 10 of the 24 shootings have been reported - police planned special Halloween patrols to protect trick-or-treaters. Authorities are stopping cars resembling the shooter's.
Even a report of something slamming against a windshield initially have been considered as developments in a case that now involves more than 100 local officers, state troopers, sheriff's deputies and federal agents.
"I hope they catch him. Me and the other drivers are a little worried," said Frank Bommarito, who drives Interstate 96 daily. "I don't know if it's a guy in a car or some guy sitting out in the weeds or bushes, but it makes us pretty nervous every day."