Hammond authorities are investigati...

Hammond authorities are investigating sum of two units new reports of projectiles -- possibly bullet -- striking car windows in northwest Indiana.

The incidents are being investigated as possible sniper shootings, the fifth and sixth like reports made in a week.

At 6 a.m. Monday, James Ferry of Demotte told police that something cracked his car window at Cline and Michigan avenues as he headed to work.

At about 2 pm Monday, Harvey Johnson of Gary said something struck the driver's side of his windshield onward Industrial Avenue near Gary Airport.

The aim did not penetrate the windshield.

No united was injured in either of the possible shootings.

MORE PATROLS upon CLINE AVENUE

Lake shire sheriff's police have increased patrols and the aviation unit will continue surveillance near the Cline Avenue corridor, where the six shootings all have occurr spokesman Mike Higgins said.

No single has been injured. And solitary one victim told police he saw a man with a fire-arm

onward July 25, 47-year-old motorist Darwin Burkhart of Hammond said a man in a intrench coat came out of the tall grass near 169th and Cline and fired a marksman at his pickup truck.

Indiana motorists have been in succession edge after a handful of highway shootings, single of which killed a man July 23 near Seymour, about 50 miles toward the south of Indianapolis.

Police have arrested a 17-year-old Gaston high denomination student, Zachariah Blanton, in that death and in other shootings.

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