Police want public's help in finding sniper

State police are urging local drivers to check their vehicles for possible bullet holes after two sniper attacks on interstate highways in Indiana this weekend left one man dead, and another injured.\n"Assistance from the public will be very critical in this ongoing situation," Sgt. Jerry Goodin said Sunday evening at a press conference in Seymour, Ind., where the first shooting took place on I-65 Sunday morning. \nThe second shooting was reported along I-69 in the Redkey area of Delaware County the same day.\nGoodin asked the public to call the state police immediately to report any suspicious activities they may have heard or witnessed. In addition, he asked drivers to check their vehicles for bullet holes, as the sound of a ricocheting bullet sounds like that of a small rock.\n"We're literally scouring hundreds of miles of crime scene," Goodin told the press, emphasizing the support Gov. Mitch Daniels has invested in the search. Daniels has committed resources from the Indiana National Guard and the Indiana Dept. of Homeland Security, and has solicited the federal government for assistance as well.\n"We are tapping every single resource possible," Goodin said.\nHelicopters and tracking dogs also have been sent out to investigate any major points of interest along the two highways, where heavy wooded areas extend from the road. Police are asking local businesses with surveillance tapes to save them as they may be needed in the ongoing investigation.\nInvestigators sent alerts to law enforcement agencies nationwide, asking whether there have been similar shootings, Goodin said.\nThe police have been unable to determine if these incidents are connected, and said they will assume that they are until more information is determined.\n"Right now we do not know how many shots were fired -- we many never know. We only know how many landed in vehicles." Goodin said, adding that the police did not yet know what type of weapon was used in the attacks.\nHe also refused to speculate on who the suspect or suspects could be or where they were from.\n"This here is a very unique case," Goodin said, explaining that the police wanted to take their time in processing the information they had. "We don't want to get in a hurry to rush something." He said he hopes to have evidence processed in the next few days.\nThe Seymour sniper shooting occurred at about 12:20 a.m. Sunday. A bullet came through the windshield of a Chevrolet pickup carrying three people, one of whom was passenger Jerry L. Ross, 40, of New Albany, who was killed by the shot, according to the police.\nAround the same time, police received a 911 call from a passenger in a Dodge Ram truck traveling southbound. The passenger in that truck, Robert John Otto Hartl, 25, of Audubon, Iowa, was grazed on the head by a bullet. He was treated at a local hospital, released, and was on his way back to Iowa Sunday.\nThe Redkey shooting occurred two hours later, at around 2:30 a.m. Trucker Richard G. Greek, 57, of Kunkle, Ohio, reported the incident to local police after realizing the repetitive bangs on his rig were gunfire. He was not injured.\nA parked automobile was hit about an hour later in the same area, Goodin said, after a gas station clerk heard gunfire and discovered the vehicle had been shot.