THE United States may be dealing with another sniper on the loose after police confirmed three shooting victims at convenience stores in West Virginia were killed by the same weapon.

Ballistic tests showed all three victims in a series of sniper-style shootings at convenience stores in West Virginia were killed by the same weapon, investigators said.

A SNIPER who has killed three people in West Virginia, USA, may have struck again after a 16-year-old girl says she was shot at a shop in Dunbar, about six miles from Charleston.

POLICE backed away yesterday from a “random sniper” theory behind three murders outside convenience stores last week, saying at least two of the victims were deliberately targeted.