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Elderly Slingshot Shooter Arrested in Southern California

An 81-year-old man who investigators say terrorized a southern California neighborhood for years with a slingshot has been arrested. During the investigation, they learned that during the course of 9-10 years, dozens of citizens were being victimized by a serial slingshot shooter. The man is suspected of breaking windows and car windshields and of narrowly missing people with ball bearings shot from a slingshot, no injuries were reported. The man was arrested after officers had a search warrant and found a slingshot and ball bearings at his home in Azusa, which is about 25 miles east of LA. Lt Jake Bushey of Azusa police said that detectives learned that most of the ball bearings were shot from the suspect’s backyard.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/27/california-serial-slingshot-suspect-arrested

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