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Reward for downstate shooter rises past $100,000

WIXOM, MI--   The reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man sought in a string of shootings along a busy Michigan freeway corridor has been raised to $102,000.

Officials said Monday that the FBI and the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are putting up $50,000 each. Crime Stoppers of Mid-Michigan has committed $2,000.

The reward had been $12,000.

At least 24 reports of gunfire near Interstate 96 have been reported since mid-October. Ten of the shootings have been in Wixom in Oakland County.

In the latest confirmed shooting, a 46-year-old West Michigan man was wounded Saturday in the buttocks when a slug slammed through his driver's-side door as he drove through Livingston County toward Detroit.

He's the only person wounded in the string of shootings.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.