NEWS
If she hadn’t been driving between 80 and 85 miles an hour to pass the vehicle in front of her on that day in October of 2012, Jennifer Kupiec might not have missed the bullet that came flying toward the front of her car.
Had she passed just a bit slower, she might have been dead.
In his closing statement for the trial of the alleged I-96 shooter in Livingston County Circuit Court, Assistant Attorney General Gregory Townsend focused on the fear that 44-year-old Raulie Casteel left in the minds of witnesses that October, when he allegedly shot at 24 cars along the I-96 corridor.
He said some of Casteel’s victims — spread across Ingham, Oakland, Livingston and Shiawassee counties — likely will live with the story of the incident for the rest of their lives.
“These communities … were living in that state of fear, because they didn’t know what was going to happen until (Casteel) was apprehended,” Townsend said.
In their closing statements, both Townsend and Casteel’s attorney spent Tuesday morning questioning Casteel’s actions, challenging the jury to decide whether he intended to hurt his victims.
On Monday, the MSU alumnus testified that he never meant to hurt anyone.
