This looks remarkably like the string of killings a few years back where the guy started out Friday evening shooting folks near a Northside Chicago synagogue, and ended up a number of killings later with him shooting a Korean kid going into or out of a church in Bloomington, Indiana.
In that case the killer belonged to one of a number of "Identity" churches. These are neo-Nazi operations whose false prophets preach evil doctrines.
Their big complaint is against Jews (and not "the Jews"), and what they call ZOG, or Zionist Operated Government.
Some of the Ku Klux Klan types in Howard County Md (adjacent to Montgomery) have Identity affiliations as do both of the major motorcycle gangs in the area (one of which is called "The Pagans". I don't know the other, but rival gang's name.)
The lady killed sitting on a bench in front of the post office is instructive in this regard. She was an Identity "two-fer". First of all, she's there at the post office, and secondly, this is the one that serves the local Leisure World retirement community. I don't know about that one, but I know about a couple of others where we have inlaws, and most of the folks living in those communites are Jewish.
If I am correct in my "profiling" these guys shot her because she was near Leisure World, and maybe also because she was near the post office (their sworn enemy so we are told which is why I pay attention to news about these guys.)
The other situations involve people in or near businesses popularly believed (according to Identity affiliate propaganda sites) to be Jewish owned. It doesn't matter who owns these businesses as long as Identity believes what it believes. They will act on their belief.
Their own literature tells us that all the rest of us are potential targets. Either we willingly do business with Jews, or we are Jews, or we are friends with one, or we live near one, or we are out in the parking lot, or whatever reason they can think of to kill people.
You just know these guy's suffer from some serious sexual dysfunction that does not respond to viagra.
But, that's beside the point. The methodology is the same.
Oh, yes, does anyone out there know why all the cops believe the shooter to be a white male? (No one has seen the shooter, so how is it that they know this to be true?)
It is not surprising the FBI admits it doesn't have a clue. No doubt one of their big boys thinks its Eric Rudolph, tanned, rested and ready from his vacation in a North Carolina cave.
I live in Howard County and have never seen nor heard of any organized KKK activity in the county. (BTW, this county unfortunately is very liberal and stocked with DemonRAT supporters.) As far as the "Pagans" motorcycle gang is concerned, I haven't heard anyting about them in over twenty years. I believe they now hang out on the eastern shore beach towns like Ocean City, Md and Rehobeth Beach, Delaware. And also in New Jersey. Some have said that they've seen them in Edgewater or North Beach, Maryland.
Have to part company with you there. If they believed it were ER they would blast it from coast to coast.
... Or they're both working at the same Eastern Oregon car wash.
People Against Goodness And Niceness?
In that case the killer belonged to one of a number of "Identity" churches. These are neo-Nazi operations whose false prophets preach evil doctrines.
You're thinking of Benjamin Smith, a member of the World Church of the Creator, hq'ed in East Peoria, Illinois. The World Church of the Creator isn't an Identity group, but rather they worship whiteness (Christianity, you see, was founded by a Jew). You can do a google search on them, because I'm not going to put up a link.
Smith killed two people, one of them Ricky Byrdsong, a former Northwestern basketball coach, and injured about a half a dozen more, a number of them being Orthodox Jews. He committed suicide when the police tried to capture him. http://www.cnn.com/US/9907/05/illinois.shootings.02/
This shooting does have some similiarities to Smith's shootings in that the victims are selected randomly (I remember that Smith did his shootings from his car, like these). The difference is that the victim selection appears not to be based on race or religion, but simply because the victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time for these snipers.