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Posted on 10/05/2002 6:15:53 AM PDT by SLB
ROCKVILLE, Md.- A series of six fatal sniper shootings has shaken the Washington, D.C., suburbs, even as officials urge wary residents to go about their normal business.
But law enforcement authorities are worried.
"My level of concern about the ability of the suspect to strike again is high," said Charles Moose, the Montgomery County police chief, late Friday. "This brings us to a higher degree of recklessness by this suspect or suspects."
"We implore him to surrender, stop this madness," Moose said.
On Friday, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said testing showed the same high-powered rifle had been used to kill at least four of six shooting victims. Five victims were shot in Maryland; one was gunned down in Washington, D.C.
The sixth victim, a 72-year-old Washington, D.C., pedestrian, was killed by the same weapon used to kill at least three of the Maryland victims, said Special Agent Michael Bouchard.
"The four shootings were done with the same firearm," he said, adding that forensic testing was still under way in the two other Maryland fatal shootings.
Bouchard also said ATF agents would examine evidence collected from the scene of a shooting Friday outside a crafts store in Fredericksburg, Va., 55 miles south of Rockville to see if it was related. A woman was shot in the back, but survived the attack.
Police were looking for two men in a white van with dark lettering, a description that came from a witness to one of the killings. Police pulled over white vans Friday and plastered orange stickers on the back to show the vehicles had been checked. Moose said investigators were chasing more than 500 leads.
Each Maryland victim was felled by a single bullet. Police said evidence indicated the killer was some distance away and used .223-caliber bullets.
The search went on amid a mix of fear and defiance among residents of the economically and culturally diverse slice of the suburban county where the shootings occurred.
Meanwhile, all over Montgomery County, people appeared to carry on with business as usual - though with a lot more caution. Many said they were afraid but wouldn't stop getting groceries, going to work or leaving their children with a baby sitter.
"I had to shop. I need to eat. I can't stay at home all day," said Kira Leonova, who works at a bookstore near one of the slaying scenes. "I have to work and I have a family."
Dexter Evans, 20, scanned the traffic as he waited for a bus to Rockville, and he took a second look at every white truck. "You can't even walk down the street without looking over your shoulder," he said.
Schools opened with extra police patrols and calls poured into 911 dispatchers about suspicious noises.
Five of the victims died within five miles of one another during a 16-hour span between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. All were gunned down in broad daylight in very public places: two at gas stations, one outside a grocery, another outside a post office and the fifth as he mowed the grass at an auto dealership.
"There's still no information to lead us to think our victims are associated," Moose said. "They don't appear to be anyone's enemies, just random targets."
Carin Saez, 27, found herself going back to school Friday to pick up her 12-year-old niece, deciding it was too dangerous. Saez said she would not let her own children go back to school until the killer was caught.
"I was petrified to even go to the store last night," Saez said. "My kids were scared. They didn't even want to go outside. They're more scared now than on September 11."
Officials at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville canceled a Friday night pep rally and police were posted at the football game against rival Wooten High. Dani Young, a 17-year-old senior, said: "It kind of ruins the mood of homecoming."
In Bethesda, Mary Patterson said as she leaving home for a hair appointment: "I'm not afraid. After all, I'm 81 years old - my time could be anytime."
Gotta love her for that comment.
Nice of them to advertise this pertinent bit of info.
The second amendment is the original homeland defense system.
That outta get their attention..the words of a true warrior...
Better work up some more profiles...
White males
25-35 yrs of age
Trailer Trash or Columbine types
Gun lovers, Gun lovers, Gun lovers
Read Gun magazines
Hunt (like to kill innocent animals) like "moose un squiverrl"
Found at rifle ranges every where
Read bibles
Have tatoos
Ride Motorcycles or mountain bikes
Former military or active duty or wish they were either...
Could be Japanese
Wished they couldda been at Waco or Ruby Ridge
Like to shoot BB guns as kids
Were in the boy scouts
Spout off about the constitution and other radical documents
heterosexuals...or frustrated homosexuals who wished they were heterosexuals
had pimples as kids...
Got mad at somebody and said so
Are hispanic or arab but probably white
ex Russian KGB now Russian Mafia
Disgruntled Indians being ripped off by casino managers..
Really butch disgruntled lesbians who wish they were more feminine lesbians..
have drivers licenses but are the type who would drive without one...
are overweight but could also be skinny
breathe air
like puppies but hate kitties
am open to other suggestions
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The file remains on my PC until I remove it. I was told that Ad-Aware flags hidden add related files that could be broadcasting information from my PC. I wonder if this is an accurate accessment, or if Ad-Aware is just another program to fascinate computer dummies like me.
He couldn't find a crack dealer in NE Portland if one walked up to Moose to turn himself in!!
If this is terrorism, then mission accomplished.
"You'll shoot both your eyes out!"
I'm sure the sniper will take this advice and surrender immediately.
What the hell do they put in the water in Maryland!
I have, 5.50.4......... But will soon upgrade. I was just curious about the Drudge site and about the claims of Ad-Ware.
"We have Nicaragua, soon we will have El Salvador, Guatamela, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Mexico. One day, tomorrow or five years or fifteen years from now, we're going to take five to ten million Mexicans and they are going into Dallas, into El Paso, into Houston, into New Mexico, into San Diego and each one will have embedded in his mind the idea of killing ten Americans.
-- Thomas Borge, Nicaragua Interior Minister, as quoted in the Washington Times, March 27, 1985.
-archy-/-
To all this I would consider adding, in this case, possessing and willing to use a bulletproof vest.
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