A suspect was arrested Friday in a rash of recent shootings in Phoenix in which vehicles were struck as they drove down freeways.
Twenty-one-year-old Leslie Merritt Jr. was arrested by police at a Walmart in Glendale around 7 p.m., according to KNXV-TV.
A witness at the store told the news station that the suspect dropped his bags and did not say anything as police closed in. Merritt was with a woman and 5-year-old child outside the store and was the only one taken into police custody.
Arizona Department of Public Safety Director Frank Milstead announced the arrest at a news conference and said that Merritt was being arrested in four of the 11 shootings.
"Are there others out there? Are there copycats? That is possible," Milstead told reporters.
Merritt faces a range of charges that include criminal endangerment, assault and unlawful discharge of a firearm in the four shootings that took place on Aug. 29 and 30 and have been called "domestic terrorism crimes" by officials.
Most of the 11 confirmed shootings have occurred along Interstate 10. There have been no reports of serious injuries, though a 13-year-old girl had her ear was cut by glass after a bullet shattered a window of a vehicle she was riding in.
There has not been a confirmed shooting in the case since Sept. 10.
Authorities had offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case.
