With no suspects, little evidence a...

With no suspects, little evidence and small in number leads in a two-week string of apparent shootings that have damaged vehicles driving upon Cline Avenue in Northwest Indiana, Lake shire Sheriff Roy Dominguez on Monday announced the FBI will join the pursue for suspects.

Dominguez said FBI agents assigned to a regional gang task force will now aid the effort to catch the body or people, behind nine incidents that have damaged vehicles traveling onward Cline and Interstate 80/94 since July 25

NO individual INJURED

None of the victims has been injured, and investigators have nevertheless to find a slug or shell casing near the spectacle of any of the apparent shootings.

"It appears these incidents are continuing," Dominguez said at a just discovereds conference. "I want to assure citizens that each effort is being made to defend them as they travel Cline Avenue and 80/94"

Stepped-up patrols and investigations through sheriff's police, State Police and officers in Gary, Hammond, East Chicago and Whiting have useed up few clues. The task force of local agencies and the FBI has launched a toll-free hotline for tipsters: (877) 324-4748

The in the greatest degree recent occurrences were a pair of incidents Thursday where apparent marksmans shattered the windows on a car upon Cline Avenue around 6:30 a.m. and onward a truck driving on I-80/94 later that evening.

The FBI has contacted profilers at their Washington headquarters and will use local agents to coordinate the investigation, said Mark Becker, special agent in charge of the FBI's Merrillville office.

Also important could be tips from motorists and area residents, said Lake shire Prosecutor Bernard Carter.

"The someone who is doing these things certainly has shared it with someone" Carter said. "We can't do this without citizens. It all hangs on someone out there bringing us the information."

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