My opinion at the moment is that even IF both of these incidents were random (Melisa and Barbara (“She was later identified by police as Barbara Harper.“ ), it doesn’t necessarily mean they are the same shooter.
It seems that in NOCO it’s turning out that we had 2 random shooters operating at the same area in the same time.
Which beings me to a point of distinction again re: if Melissa’s incident was random:
It must be differentiated between a “random shooting” and a “serial random shooter”, meaning that even if this was a random shooting, this doesn’t necessarily mean that it was the work of a “serial random shooter”. Hope that makes sense.
In the posted above, (and again not to be confused with the KC serial hwy shooter from 2014), in 2017 the article states there were shootings but they have not been linked to each other (pulling article). Again, there is so much violence going on these days.
From September 2017:
Series of shootings on KC-area highways not linked, police say
—I wonder if ballistics might get a hit to link Barbara’s shootings to any of these other shootings in KC?!
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ETA:
So as I stated before there are so many of these types of incidents these days (unsolved shootings)—I was just now googling Barbara shot on I 70 or something like that and came across this (totally unrelated)—this nut job was just out drunk and decided to shoot his gun out the window into the air
CSP: Drunk passenger shoots gun from car on I-70
This further helps express my point that a random shooting doesn’t necessarily mean a serial random shooter. However IMO IF this IS a random shooting, then I would lean towards the “random serial shooter” subclassification, moo.
Which, just a note of mention, this brings me to the element of buildings being shot up which were mentioned by LE as potentially being connected in NOCO, just wanted to make a note:
Northern Colorado Shooting Task Force
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Researching shootings incidents is depressing with infinite results - while sometimes random serial shooters can have different MOs (as in the case of linked victims CR (in vehicle on highway) and JJ (on bicycle on country road) -With that being said I don’t want to get overwhelmed/lose focus so will maybe try to keep focus narrow at this point, highway shootings.
(Another example of an infinitely depressing gun violence google result with innocent victims:
Child shot three times at Kansas City Price Chopper )
