Man Seeking Calif. ‘Highway Killer’ Fires Shots in N.Y.
A Vietnam veteran who said he was on his way to California to find the “highway killer” fired as many as 10 shots from an automatic rifle into the ground after his pickup truck was sideswiped on the Triborough Bridge early today, police said.
“He was saying all kinds of crazy things,” said Officer Serge Ruggio, one of three who arrested Robert Edward John, 32, of Dingmans Ferry, Pa., shortly after midnight. “I don’t know if he was joking or what.”
Police spokesman Sgt. Raymond O’Donnell said John fired nine or 10 shots into the ground “in the vicinity” of the other party to the accident, but no injuries were reported. John was to be arraigned later today on charges of reckless endangerment, possession of a weapon and menacing.
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