Police suspect serial shooter is firing on cars in San Jose

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A serial shooter has apparently been targeting cars along a busy traffic corridor in San Jose, putting a community on edge and perplexing investigators in search of the assailant.

In 10 incidents in recent months, someone opened fire on cars driving along the Blossom Hill Road corridor, San Jose police officials said.

No one has been injured in the shootings, but police said vehicles were struck by bullets.

In nearly all of the attacks, the shooter opened fire on vehicles in the cover of darkness, striking in the early-morning hours.

The first attack came on May 4 at 12:30 a.m. and was followed by a shooting on June 2 at 12:50 a.m., police said

After nearly a month without random shootings, the attacker struck again on June 30, opening fire twice on cars around 12:35 a.m. Then on July 2, another incident was reported around that same time, police said.

There were three shootings in the early-morning hours on July 21 and 22, and then two more on Aug. 4 and 5.

All of the attacks were along Blossom Hill Road near Poughkeepsie and Monterey roads. Police have been canvassing the area and distributing flyers in hopes that someone will come forward with information about the attacks.

Anyone with information about the shootings can call San Jose police detectives at (408) 277-4161.

Evan Sernoffsky is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: esernoffsky@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @EvanSernoffsky