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Report: Possible shooting on Interstate 10 in Phoenix

Reports of another possible shooting on Interstate 10 in Phoenix on Wednesday sent highway patrol officers to the freeway near 43rd Avenue.

The rear back window of a truck was hit on Wednesday while driving on Interstate 10. (Cooper Rummel...

The rear back window of a truck was hit on Wednesday while driving on Interstate 10. (Cooper Rummell/KTAR)

(Cooper Rummell/KTAR)

PHOENIX — Reports of another possible shooting on Interstate 10 in Phoenix on Wednesday sent highway patrol officers to the freeway near 43rd Avenue.

A projectile hit the rear window of a white truck, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

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There have been at least nine shootings on the freeway since late August.

On Tuesday, a Phoenix police officer thought he had been shot at on his drive to work. He was heading eastbound on I-10 near 35th Avenue when a side window shattered around 5:20 a.m., he told DPS.

Around the same time, DPS Director Col. Frank Milstead said there was another shooting in the opposite direction.

“Right now there is a real and continuing threat to Arizona motorists…This is a paramount priority for the Arizona Department of Public Safety and our law enforcement partners,” Milstead said.

“The DPS has recast all of our available assets to this investigation.”

A reward worth $20,000 has been posted for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the shooter or shooters. Please call 602-644-5805 with information.

So far, only one person has been injured.

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