Driving in the Line of Fire

A series of shootings puts Ohio residents on edge

First came the boom. Ed Cable heard it driving home Nov. 21 on a lonely stretch of highway about eight miles south of downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was loud enough to make him hit the brakes. Then came the explosion--"right beside me," Cable says. "I immediately got off the highway and got out of the car." Shaken, the retired corrections officer saw the driver's-side window of his minivan was splintered and the roof had a hole "the size of a 50ยข piece." A policeman stopped to help, but Cable, 53, says he could not convince him that the shard on the...

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