# Gunman shoots at cops and motorists on I-90.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunman-shoots-at-cops-and-motorists-on-i-90/480712
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 10, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunman-shoots-at-cops-and-motorists-on-i-90/480712 "2009-01-10T21:00:53Z")
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### Author:  [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunman-shoots-at-cops-and-motorists-on-i-90/480712/1 "2009-01-10T21:00:53Z")
Alternate thread title: The SDMB may have saved my life.
I missed [this](http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=758656) incident by 15 minutes.
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> EAST GREENBUSH - A man in a Connecticut taxi cab opened fire at State Police and was shot today after a traffic stop on Interstate 90, prompting the highway’s closure in both directions as investigators probed the chaotic scene in East Greenbush authorities said.
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> One witness told the Times Union several gunshots were fired from near the taxi around noon. Drivers were told by police to run from their cars, the witness said.
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> A helicopter searched the woods near I-90 for some time after the incident.
I decided to go to my office in Albany for a few hours this morning and at 11:40 am or so, figured I had done enough and would leave so I could get home to take care of our daughter while my husband went to Home Depot on Rte. 4. But being a procrastinator, I thought I’d waste some time on the boards for about 15-20 minutes before leaving.
If I had decided to leave when I was done with work, I would have been one of the people the cops were telling to run from their vehicles.
If you enlarge the second picture down, you can make out a black SUV on a flatbed tow truck. I’m in the silver car behind the tow truck. At this point, everyone was getting off at exit 9. The cops were just starting to show up when I got there about a 1/4 mile before that picture was taken. There were about a dozen cop cars either in the median, the highway or speeding past to the scene. When I saw the police chopper circling the area, I figured it was more than a 3 car pileup I was avoiding.
There’s no word on the shooter’s name or a motive. The guy was in a Connecticut taxi and jumped out and started shooting. According to another website another suspect was found near the Home Depot on Rte 4, oddly enough.
My usual 25 minute drive home took over an hour. So how’s your Saturday going?
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunman-shoots-at-cops-and-motorists-on-i-90/480712/2 "2009-01-10T23:07:29Z")
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> So how’s your Saturday going?
Ok.
A little dull.
🙂
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### Author:  [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunman-shoots-at-cops-and-motorists-on-i-90/480712/3 "2009-01-11T00:24:10Z")
Scary! I’m glad you missed it.
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### Author:  [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunman-shoots-at-cops-and-motorists-on-i-90/480712/4 "2009-01-11T01:20:46Z")
No recent freeway shootings, but it’s been dry and windy with temps in the mid-80’s, which prompted L.A. County to issue a red flag warning for high fire danger this weekend. BTW, what’s with all that white stuff on the ground? Sure looks dreary. 🆒
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### Author:  [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunman-shoots-at-cops-and-motorists-on-i-90/480712/5 "2009-01-11T01:22:25Z")
The footage on the local news looked scary. One car had a bullet hole in the hood. There were dozens of people fleeing from their cars and they had to go back later to retrieve them. As of 8:00 pm, the highway is still closed between exits 9 and 11.
I never heard anything else about a second suspect being found near Home Depot. As far as I know, a State Trooper pulled the taxi over for a traffic stop and the passenger started shooting with a rifle. So a second suspect sounds unlikely, IMO. There’s still no known motive and the suspect is in surgery.
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> BTW, what’s with all that white stuff on the ground? Sure looks dreary.
That white stuff on the ground is going to be multiplying tonight by 1 - 2 inches per hour. We’re looking at 7-10 inches by noon tomorrow and that’s pretty normal for this region. At least it doesn’t cause wildfires, eh?