Theory on killings suspect barred at freeway shootings trial

PHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers for a man once accused in metro Phoenix’s 2015 freeway shootings are barred from saying at an upcoming trial that there’s a high likelihood a car belonging to a man later charged in nine killings had been near two of the highway shootings. Attorneys representing Leslie Merritt Jr. in a false-arrest lawsuit say license plate readers picked up a plate matching six of the seven characters from killing suspect Aaron Juan Saucedo’s BMW near two freeway s