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Woman Testifies She Saw Highway Shooter Shoot At Her

A woman told the jury in the highway shootings trial that she saw a man fire at her car as she drove north on I-71 in Fayette County in Feburary of 2004.

The woman also testified she saw the man, holding a gun, get into a small dark car.

The two people whose houses were hit in the string of Columbus-area highway shootings say they initially did not think they had been shot at.

Emma Fader told jurors today that she initially thought a bullet hole in her front room wall had been caused by her son trying to hang a picture. Only after Fader found more damage on the wall did her sons discover the bullet on the floor.

Ronald Edwards says he thought it was a backfiring car that woke him the night of December 14, 2003. He found a bullet in his bathtub drain the next afternoon.

Attorneys for Charles McCoy say he was the gunman who fired at the houses, vehicles and a school, but they say he didn't understand the difference between right and wrong because he is paranoid schizophrenic.