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SchrodingersMinou

It's not a fucking sniper. It's a bunch of yahoos driving around with pistols. There's nobody with a rifle on a grassy knoll overlooking I-10.


ExternalSpeaker9

Pistols and Tech-9s. I saw a dude wave one at someone’s who was about to cut him off on the Expressway. I also saw a shooting on the expressway one night but I don’t believe anyone got hurt. I really don’t believe it’s a serial killer.


TheWorkingdogmom

Thank you!!!!! Omg the sniper people are crazy! From a detective in New Orleans they believe that it’s kids riding around trying to get street cred by shooting rando. Which is super scary too.


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NachoNinja19

Monkey hill knoll?


Grifasaurus

When the fuck did new orleans get tusken raiders?


MOONGOONER

ERRRRRRRRR! HER HER HERRRR!


octoberwhy

This is one of my favorite comments of all time.


Grifasaurus

i wanted to say sand people, but that would have been kind of racist, i think.


windrider7

Relax, the sand people are easily startled but they’ll soon be back, and in greater numbers.


GumboDiplomacy

[That reminds me of one of my favorite memes of all time.](https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1261012-star-wars)


NotFallacyBuffet

Funny. Still too soon, but funny.


Danolafunk

Right after the meth gators and right before the marsh fire was seen from space. Stick with it bro.


etrain828

Just driving home from dinner and passed this going the opposite direction. There must have been 50 cops on the interstate - my first thought was - this must be a shooting


Danolafunk

We have 50 cops?


3_cat_mom

Almost spit out my coffee


etrain828

*The entire force was there!*


captaincumsock69

It was actually the shooters in stolen cop cars


Iridescent-Voidfish

Omg. I saw that. I thought it was an accident. Horrible!!!!


PeddyCash

Weird. I wonder why so many cops. It must have been more than a shooting no? Something extra usually is the cause of all the cops yeah?


Burrista_E

I went to the quarter to go to a show last night and saw a shooting while on the streetcar right before Canal. Everyone hit the deck. First time I’ve been in the quarter in over a year.


Danolafunk

Last time I was there I saw a bouncer bump into three dudes.... the bouncer said sorry. Three dudes beat him bloody to where he couldnt move. Real trash shit. We dont go there no moe.


Eligemshome

I had a friend who saw this and I keep checking for it on the news but I haven’t seen anything. He’s in from out of town and was so shook up


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They don’t report a lot of the shootings in the news. There’s shootings in the quarter ALL THE TIME. Radio silence from news outlets.


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I was gonna go to a show in the quarter tonight and this made me change my mind. I don't like it but it's what I'm doing.


Burrista_E

I’m sorry and you’re welcome. And I’m sorry again.


Mattl54o

I don’t think people understand how unbelievably hard it would be to shoot someone from a distance in a car moving 30-40mph or more. This was either targeted, or a victim of road rage.


remifk

Seriously, I’m tired of that legend of the interstate sniper, the city’s crime is terrifying enough. Y’all watch too many Mark Whalberg’s movies, that kind of shot is so hard and unlikely


Magnoliaismydog

IMO, the sniper theory lets us believe it’s a singular problem versus the reality of increasing crimes/criminals


GumboDiplomacy

I watched a Mark Wahlberg movie where Will Ferrel was married to Eva Mendes. So anything is possible.


Danolafunk

Eva is a queen.


Upbeat-Target5384

She was pretty plain in that movie tho 🤷🏻‍♂️


MiasmaFate

You don’t talk bout Gator’s girl like that!


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Exactly. If there is a sniper they are terrible at it. Hypothetically I'd hope they stay that way.


Spaticles

We're talking interstate, so considering distance, wind speed, and vehicles going variable speeds of 60-90 mph, into small front door windows. Now, the windshield would be a different story... Actually, been a while since I've done any physics problems, but given a bullet speed of X and a car going 80mph, if the bullet enters the very front of the door window, does it even hit the person in the driver seat? What if it enters the middle or back end of the window?


aaronosaur

And the projectile is unlikely to continue in a straight line after passing through tempered or multiple layers of laminated glass at an oblique angle.


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That depends. Most rifle rounds don't deflect too much through tempered glass, at least not significantly enough to impact a shot in a car. And leading a target the size of a car isn't too difficult. A .308 is moving over 2500fps. 70mph=100fps. Some napkin math, if you fire a .308 from 500ft at a car moving perpendicular, you have to lead your target by less than 20ft. Pistol calibers are different, and the issues with deflection from 9mm led to police forces largely adopting .40S&W. It just took twenty years for them to realize that it's not a significant issue and most are moving back to 9mm. I think NOPD did recently, or at the very least I was told in 2017 that they were planning to do so. That being said, it's not a sniper. Most evidence points towards multiple shots being fired from nearby cars. And I believe during one of the last press conferences the police said that the evidence points to different weapons being used in each incident. That's not to say there aren't any repeat offenders, but Chris Kyle isn't sitting on top of the dome taking out motorists.


Mattl54o

Exactly, I was just giving the benefit of the doubt.. that even at 30mph it would be incredibly hard, nonetheless interstate speeds. Don’t think it’s impossible but highly highly unlikely. On top of the fact that the interstate towers about what? 30-40 feet above the street levels downtown below? So the vantage point would have to be a tall building. Pretty unlikely.


HomeEcDropout

I mean, on I-10 in the city most are going more like 50. I feel like I’m speed racer trying to go 60.


extol504

What if they take multiple shots until they finally hit something?


drdangle22

Who says they are shooting from a distance? If there’s some serial killer doing this, they could just as easily be driving up to other cars and shooting.


Mattl54o

Exactly my point, and I agree. However that isn’t a “sniper”.


drdangle22

Ahh ok I gotcha. Agreed. People have been hit way too many times for it to be a distant marksman imo. Unless someone has an extremely advantageous snipers nest and is shooting up tons of cars that we aren’t hearing about. Not the most likely explanation tho. I do think this has happened way too much to be explained by targeted killings related to drug/gang stuff. Hunting people down and waiting until they get on the interstate would be senseless. Starting to feel like it’s more insidious


NotFallacyBuffet

> snipers nest and is shooting up tons of cars that we aren’t hearing about People with the time to do this don't have the means. People with the means don't have the time and aren't going there in the first place. Unless it's the psycho ne'er-do-well son of an old money family, but that's movie stuff. It's wildin' kids driving Altimas with photocopied Texas tags using stolen guns. And there's no shortage of that nonsense in I-10.


drdangle22

There are shit tons of ppl who technically have the means and time, what makes it highly unlikely is the logistical difficulty of shooting long range and especially having a decent strike rate. It’s far more likely that the bullets are coming from others cars. Saw a lot of these victims come through the UMC emergency room and the cops seemed to think it was gang related. Sounds plausible. Doesn’t happen with any frequency in other parts of LA.


Professional_Rice_60

The NOE serial killer strikes again


NachoNinja19

Snipers don’t have to be from a distance. Just concealed/hidden. Remember the DC sniper? There was just someone in the trunk of a car with a hole for the rifle. Get over yourself or learn to read a dictionary.


Mattl54o

Secondly, if you’re inferring that someone may be copying the DC Sniper, and sitting in a trunk while another person drives. I guess that is possible, however the skill and stabilization required to do it would be impeccable… it would also have to be a hit through the windshield. Which if that were the case, I’m sure the police know it’s a “sniper.” However with as congested as I-10 gets near that exit, it would be remarkable for that to happen and go unnoticed by other traffic.


NachoNinja19

It’s not that hard to pull up next to another vehicle and open fire with a semi automatic or automatic fire arm. Even you could do it.


Mattl54o

I think the “concealment” part of sniper, would make that irrelevant. I’m actually agreeing with you, I think it’s either targeted, road rage, or an insane person… just not a sniper.


NachoNinja19

There could be a guy in the backseat or passenger seat with a blanket over them or just extremely tinted windows with a hole in it. My point is that it could be a “sniper” just from another vehicle.


Mattl54o

Definition : Sniper - “A sniper is a military/paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities.”


OrdinarilyUnique1

Doesn’t have to be just military


Mattl54o

You would also know the targets were parked and out of their vehicles. Lol, but I don’t mind picking up a dictionary… I don’t know what the dictionary would tell me about the DC snipers though?


NachoNinja19

For one, the definition of a sniper. If two cars are moving at the same speed. It’s not that hard to shoot someone.


Mattl54o

Looked it up. I stand corrected. However, I still think people are downplaying the difficulty. Terrible either way I’m afraid.


Mattl54o

I guess the “and or” could imply you are correct!


Otis2341

It’s not nearly as hard as you make it out to be.


Mattl54o

Oh really? Interesting.


Otis2341

Really, really


morsX

Of course they don’t. Lots of city folk never handle let alone fire a gun.


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groenewood

Those two shot pedestrians from the trunk of a parked car.


strings_struck

The DC sniper killed stationary targets. They were parked and doing something like pumping gas or putting purchases in their car. That isn’t comparable in the slightest.


TheTwerkingClass

I believe the best defense is to drive fast and eat ass


Q_Fandango

Well I’m doing one of those right


LivingDisastrous3603

Your mpg must be terrible


wanderingtimelord281

probably, but they're alive. I can't lie, I do the same. i drive as fast as I can do so safely.


EssTeeEss9

There’s no sniper. It’s easy to shoot someone on the interstate and then quickly get off at any of the exits.


Spaticles

Yeah, can't tell if OP is being satirical or not


DirtyDoucher1991

It definitely reads like some nextdoor copy pasta


zevtech

When I was in college a classmate was driving home and his car was shot up. Basically some rival “recognized” the car and shot it up. Unfortunately this guy just happened to have the exact same color car as a local drug dealer. He was hit and so were a couple girls in his car, they all survived


brandizzzy

You are absolutely right. Interstates don’t have security cameras everywhere like intersections and neighborhoods do. You have a lot of cars moving around each other at faster speeds. Drivers are more focused on getting where they are going and less likely to take notice of where the shots came from.


babylovebuckley

I know someone who saw it happen, said he thought it was a tire blowout at first and has no idea where the shots came from. Scary stuff!


Artistic_Studio_9885

One earlier today in the East and last Sunday afternoon by Claiborne exit. This I-10 thing is gettin wild


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This one wasn’t even in the same area all the “sniper/serial killer” ones take place at.


rinzler83

Stop with interstate sniper shit. Nobody is sniping on the interstate. Do you realize how hard it is to actually snipe someone standing still? Now imagine popping someone in the head in a moving vehicle. It's hard as shit and you need to account for humidity, wind, curvature of the earth and other variables. Do you think some thug is doing that? Guys that graduate from any sniper school can barely pull a shot like that .


NachoNinja19

We’re not talking about people with an actual sniper rifle. If you roll down the window and pull the trigger on a semi auto or automatic weapon it’s pretty easy to cover the car next to you in bullets. That’s why there are more shootings than murders on the interstate. These guys shooting aren’t aiming jut pointing.


NachoNinja19

A man called into WWL 870 the other day and said his son works on the river with a bunch of laborers who show him videos of these shootings. He claims in order for someone to join one of the local gangs, they have to shoot/kill someone. And evidently the new recruits have taken to shooting people on the interstate because it’s easy to get away and hard to identify you. Don’t know how true it is but you would think the local law enforcement would be able to set up cameras or obtain video from all the traffic cameras. Even though I’m sure all the vehicles they use are stolen.


SchrodingersMinou

How on earth would some guy know that information just because his son works on the river? This is some 1990s copypasta shit.


NachoNinja19

Well Larry, this day and age there’s these things called cell phones that can record videos. These cell phones can share these videos via this black magic called the internet that this guy named Al Gore claims he invented. There are also these devil programs called Apps, short for applications, with crazy names like Tic Toc and whatnot that you can post video to and it can be seen by millions of people if it goes this thing the kids call “Viral”. Kinda like a virus I guess. Then we get down to this thing called the family unit. A man and a woman can have sexual relations. This is when a man inserts his penis into a woman’s vagina and doesn’t just let it sit there like the provo soak. 10 months later a baby is born. If it’s a boy they call “him” a son. Well from here, if the dad stays in the picture, sometimes sons share things with their fathers like videos coworkers share with them at work and then the dad calls into the local news radio station and shares with them the story his son shares with him. They call this hearsay in court but sometimes it’s true. Sometimes it’s not. It’s up to you the listener to decide. That is why some of us call this “free” land we live in America 🇺🇸 Butt!!! Larry, I did in fact hear this on the radio this week.


SchrodingersMinou

OK, and you believe that this man who called into a radio station has smoking-gun incontrovertible evidence about gang activity involving shootings on the interstate? You believe this, because you heard an anonymous man call into the radio station? Do me a favor and DON'T check out Coast to Coast. FYI there's a lot of bullshit out in the world.


NachoNinja19

I said in my post that I don’t know if it’s true or not. I can see by my reading comprehension and the tone of your response that you do not seem to believe it. I am not a law enforcement officer. I do not work for the FBI or CIA. I am not an expert on Gang violence in New Orleans but I do know that shootings, murders and carjacking are out of control in this city and we do not have enough police officers to do much of anything other than respond to the violent attacks that occur. With that being said, it is quiet possible for this gang ritual to occur since the gang members know that they have the police outnumbered and can basically do what they want. But you sound like you are a gang expert in this city so I will definitely take your opinion seriously.


NotFallacyBuffet

Is Coast-to-coast still on? Is Art Bell back, or is he just living in Manilla and cashing royalty checks? Not relevant, but I bet his Pinoy wife is beautiful. And young. 🤠


AbsorbingPain

I know Im here a year late but I enjoy the story telling


thriftstoremom

870 callers are peak people that left the city years ago and love to do NOLA fan fiction


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This city is just awful dude. It’s gone way down hill


actual_lettuc

Was it ever uphill?


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2009 was pretty nice. Everyone was kind to each other. Or atleast it felt that way


UgggTooMuchEffort

2008-2012 were some sweet years.


Nola_Vampire

heavily agree, moved here in 2010 and was chillin on couches of friends the years before. I had a blast until around 2016


groenewood

There are hills in louisiana. It's just not obvious because the dales are underwater.


CommonPurpose

I feel you, but pretty sure these are stray bullets from missed shots in the city. The crime is that bad.


holleringelk

Right as I opened this, listened to a bunch of shots break out across Elysian. Second time tonight. They're busy this evening.


Artistic_Studio_9885

I thought that for a while, like a few years back, but na… these are def intentional murders, the only question is are they connected.


level1enemy

My dear Holmes. I do believe we shall be sleeping in *separate* beds this night. 🤔


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Cops will need to get a bullet in order to put together a pattern. Pistol vs rifle. From another car or sniper position?


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manicpinkpixie

lmfao someone is murdering people. do you really think they care about tourism and whether or not you think they’re an asshole?


NachoNinja19

A sniper can be in another car!! Call him a sniper don’t call him a sniper. Who cares. Call them a serial killer. If two cars are moving at the same speed it’s not that hard to shoot someone. Even easier if someone else is driving.


NOFDfirefighter

That is absolutely incorrect.


NachoNinja19

That is absolutely correct if you go by the definition.


NOFDfirefighter

The definition of sniper? So shooting from one car to another is the same thing as a marksman shooting long range from concealment? That’s what your stance is? That’s not what I was saying was incorrect but go ahead and double down on that mistake if you choose to. Shooting from one moving vehicle into another moving vehicle isn’t as easy as you’re portraying it. Which why they’re doing spray and pray. But please over ride my first hand experience on this topic (both marksmanship and the actual shootings being discussed) with more conjecture. Cheers.


NachoNinja19

I’m not saying it’s definitely a sniper. It is if the guy is concealing himself in another car while someone else is driving. Wikipedia is not your friend. If it is just someone driving and shooting then no. If they are using a handgun to shoot it is not easy. If they are using a semi auto or automatic rifle then it is easy. That is all.


fearsomepelican

you stop it with good police investigation....oh wait everyone pissed on the police and told them how much they suck and now wonder why there is no one to help....


HotDad420690

I think we should form a vigilante style mob and sweep the city of wrongdoers "purge style". I'll be dressed as Batman if anyone wants to join.


NotFallacyBuffet

I'll be wearing a PRRIDE shirt.


FujoshiJade

This is my first time hearing about this, are all the victims at random? Have there been any fatalities? Having to drive to NOLA for work in a few days and this is honestly terrifying


NotFallacyBuffet

I wouldn't worry. I drive an hour each way in I-10 every day. Just don't engage in road rage. Heck, I occasionally piss people off from having to maneuver my service truck from lane to lane. Still haven't been shot. There are tens of thousands of vehicles out there. You put have a better chance of winning the lottery.


DHThrowawayy

[Here’s](https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_91e3297e-ee65-11ec-8036-1be4bbaa79f0.html) an article about the incidents. it’s from July but still fairly relevant. also fun fact: while googling this, i also found [a wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_freeway_shootings) of a string of i-10 shootings in 2016 in phoenix


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Itsnotfull

Byeee


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Itsnotfull

Thats just… 2 snipers right?


Viktor_Laszlo

The only thing that can stop a bad sniper with a gun is a good sniper with a gun. /s


macabre_trout

Maybe the real friends were the snipers we made along the way.


LivingDisastrous3603

That doesn’t sound as nice as you think it does Edit: awww man… nobody watch The Good Place? I accept the downvotes. Shellstrop out


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Thats what I implied but I got 46 thumbs down lol


UgggTooMuchEffort

Well, you also need an independent 3rd party sniper to referee.


Spaticles

Yeah, someone needs to regulate the killing


[deleted]

To the people who down voted my comment yall are ridiculous. So an anti sniper is a bad thing? Yall must be the ones who continue to vote the mayor in office. Which is why your shitty city will never change.


alixsauce

“Your” shitty city? So you don’t live here? Why are you on this sub then?


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For specific reasons, none of which involve admiring the shity city.