FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - No suspects have been identified after a 20-year-old woman was shot in the neck as she drove on Interstate 25 near Fort Collins, authorities said Friday.
Investigators are still trying to determine if the Wednesday incident is linked to two other possible vehicle shootings.
The Weld County Sheriff’s Office, Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, and Loveland police are investigating. They did not return calls seeking more details Friday.
Deputies said they no longer believe another incident, a window-breaking Tuesday on an inmate transport van on I-25, is related.
“My understanding, as of what I have been told, is the only confirmed bullet fired into a vehicle is the shooting Wednesday,” Larimer County Sheriff’s Office spokesman David Moore told the Fort Collins Coloradoan (https://tinyurl.com/notn5hl ).
It appears to be a random attack, Moore said. “There’s no motive for why someone would shoot this young lady,” he said.
The Milliken woman, whose name has not been released, was reported in good condition Thursday.
Moore said people should be vigilant.
“We don’t want people to overreact, but we don’t want them to under-react either,” Smith said Thursday.
A dark-colored SUV was a possible suspect vehicle in Wednesday’s shooting, Smith said. The injured woman told investigators that it was the only vehicle she remembers seeing prior to being struck in the neck with a bullet.
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