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Exclusive: Accused Freeway Sniper Speaks Out
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May 24, 2016
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0:31Now PlayingTHURSDAY, MAY 26: In August 2015, a string of freeway sniper shootings caused a wave of panic that left Arizona residents fearing for their lives. After weeks of searching for the sniper, authorities said they had linked a gun to four of the I-10 shootings – and that gun had belonged to 21-year-old Leslie Merritt Jr., and he was arrested. But Leslie proclaimed his innocence saying his gun was at the pawnshop during the time the shootings occurred. After 222 days behind bars, Leslie was released and all charges against him were officially dismissed after a prosecution expert testified that he could neither exclude nor identify the bullets in question as having come from Leslie’s gun. But to this day, people, including officials, say they believe they had the right man and Leslie is the Arizona sniper. Today, Leslie speaks out for the first time in an exclusive interview. Find out what it was like seeing weapons drawn on his girlfriend and baby daughter on the day he was arrested and the tactics he claims were used to try to get him to confess. Leslie will also respond to the question on so many people’s minds, “Is Leslie Merritt an innocent man who was locked up for almost a year for a crime he didn’t commit?”
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