Teen charged in Indiana highway sniper slaying
Police on Tuesday charged a 17-year-old high school student with carrying out an Indiana highway sniper spree that left one dead and one injured.
The motive behind the attacks on Sunday July 23 were still not clear, officials said, though the person arrested, Zachariah Blanton, has had unspecified run-ins with the law in the past, investigators said.
Blanton, of Gaston, Indiana, a town near Muncie northeast of Indianapolis, was arrested following a tip. Delaware County Sheriff George Sheridan told a news conference the youth was "remorseful and cooperative" and, while he had not confessed, his statements provided probable cause to charge him with murder, attempted murder and criminal recklessness.
He was being held without bond at the Jackson County jail near Seymour, south of Indianapolis, where the first attacks occurred on Sunday along Interstate 65, a busy Great Lakes to Gulf Coast thoroughfare.
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