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Police confirm shooting at Michael's
Fredericksburg.com ^
| October 4, 2002
Posted on 10/04/2002 1:58:35 PM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29
Authorities have confirmed a shooting at Michael's Craft Store in Spotsylvania County. They have no additional information at this time, as they have recently arrived on the scene.
Yesterday's shooting of five people in Maryland have area residents concerened, and some say they will stay indoors.
Police have NOT yet connected this shooting with the shootings in Maryland. We will keep you posted as the investigation unfolds.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
I'd say it is connected... This is the second Micheael's that has been shot into.
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posted on
10/04/2002 2:02:13 PM PDT
by
stlnative
To: brigette
On this shooting spree?
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posted on
10/04/2002 2:03:30 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: brigette
I'd have to agree, connected.
To: brigette
Actually, the seventh PERSON to be shot into...
To: brigette
The fact it was a Michael's makes me think copycat. The killer clearly didn't have anything against Michael's, just humanity.
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Investigators Still Searching For White Truck POSTED: 8:11 a.m. EDT October 4, 2002
UPDATED: 4:50 p.m. EDT October 4, 2002
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- A woman was shot outside a store near Fredericksburg, Va., Friday afternoon, in an incident with similarities to the shootings in Montgomery County, Md.
Spotsylvania County police say the woman was loading packages into her car about 2:30 p.m. at a Michaels crafts store outside Spotsylvania Mall when she was shot in the back. There was no official word on her condition, but witnesses say she was breathing and speaking.
The shot apparently was fired from a distance. The first incident in the Maryland shooting spree was a shot fired through the window of a Michaels store.
Police are not saying there's a connection between Friday afternoon's incident and the Maryland shootings. They say it's too soon to draw any conclusions.
However, Montgomery County police chief Charles Moose says he will send his investigators to Virginia to see if there is a connection to the shootings in his county.
(Fredericksburg-AP) -- Police say the weapon that wounded a woman outside a mall near Fredericksburg, Virginia, does NOT appear to have been a high-powered rifle like the one involved in a series of shootings in Montgomery County. Spotsylvania County Police Captain Michael Timm says a woman was shot in the lower back as she loaded packages into her car.
Timm says the bullet passed through the woman's body, and police are looking for it.
No official word on the woman's condition.
The shooting occurred outside a Michaels crafts store at Spotsylvania Mall. The first incident in the Montgomery shootings was a shot fired through the window of a Michaels store.
Montgomery County police are sending investigators to the scene.
To: michigander
Wow, let's hope this one pulls through.
To: michigander
I've been away from the PC for awhile. Has anybody speculated these shootings could be terror related? I thought I heard someone thought there was a driver and a shooter. Don't know if this shooting is connected or not, but it would be stupid to think they are not just because a different weapon was used. I have several.
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posted on
10/04/2002 2:20:56 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
I recall reading an article not too long ago on FR about the various training of the terrorists. One of the things they were training to do was to shoot innocent people at random just like what is happening. Does anyone else remember this article?
To: ladyinred
No, but I'd like to see that article. as well.
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posted on
10/04/2002 2:22:59 PM PDT
by
Maedhros
To: umgud
Has anybody speculated these shootings could be terror related? Go to the first thread linked in reply #2 here, there's all kinds of speculation.
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
To: umgud
Jonah Goldberg has, on National Review Online's
The Corner blog. And
Kathryn Jean Lopez said that local officials had refused to rule out terrorism.
So, while I haven't heard a lot of discussion about it, it has been mentioned.
To: Maedhros; ladyinred
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
"Yesterday's shooting of five people in Maryland have area residents concerened, and some say they will stay indoors."Yes! Cower indoors! And keep voting Democrats into office so they can pass more victim disarmament laws! Enjoy the new U.S.S.A.!
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Thanks, that is the article I was talking about. Didn't I hear they were looking for a pickup in the shootings from yesterday? Yikes, perhaps I am over reacting, but this is the first thing I thought of.
To: stndngathwrthistry
I haven't heard anything about terrorism. The reporters seem more upset that these may be "hate crimes".
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posted on
10/04/2002 2:38:41 PM PDT
by
lizma
To: Maedhros
Wanted to make sure you saw the linked article I was talking about on the terrorist training.
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