Gun Not Pawned During AZ Freeway Shootings: PD

The gun that authorities allege fired at four vehicles driving down on an Arizona freeway in August was not pawned at the time of the shootings, police said in a report, according to NBC News.

That contradicts what Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., 21, said in court on Saturday – he was arrested Friday and charged in the first four of a string of 11 shootings that occurred over two weeks and left Phoenix area drivers on edge.

Merritt told a judge Saturday that his gun had been in a pawn shop for two months – he claimed he had no access to a weapon – and police have "the wrong guy" in connection with the shootings.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety's report said bullets fired in tests from a gun that Merritt allegedly pawned matched "bullets and bullet fragments from the four cases."

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