In a brief court appearance on Saturday, Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., a 21-year-old landscaper charged in connection with a series of 11 shootings that took place along a freeway in Arizona earlier this month, maintained his innocence: “All I have to say is I’m the wrong guy,” he said.

On Friday, Arizona police arrested Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., 21, at a Wal-Mart in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, in connection with four of a string of 11 seemingly-random freeway shootings that took place over the past three weeks.