Police: Teen Admits Sniper Attacks

A 17-year-old boy has reportedly admitted to Sunday’s sniper attacks along two Interstate highways. State Police Superintendent Paul Whitesell said, "His cooperation was to such an extent that it was sufficient for probable cause and I would call that a confession if it was not penned." Whitesell says police found a rifle in Zachariah Blanton’s home that matches the type used in the shootings on I-65 an I-69. Blanton faces preliminary charges of murder, attempted murder and criminal recklessness this morning. He lives in northwestern Delaware County, not far from the scenes of two vehicle shootings on I-69. An acquaintance of Blanton’s made a tip to a reserve sheriff’s department officer that led police to the Blanton. Whitesell says Blanton apparently drove onto an I-65 overpass near Seymour, leaned across the trunk of his vehicle, shot at two pickup trucks and then drove about 100 miles north to the Muncie area where he shot at vehicles from two sites about a mile apart. Whitesell says he doesn’t know what Blanton’s motive might have been.