posted on October 11, 2002 09:05:47 AM new
...And another deadly shooting at a Virginia gas station this morning... Now, they are looking for a white astro van with a ladder on top. Last week it was a white box van and before that a white box truck.
Today, they have a net around the area so hopefully he will be caught.
I live within one or two miles of the Maryland shootings. One was near the grocery store that I use and another was at a gas station in my neighborhood. I've shopped in the arts and crafts store into which the first known shot was fired and I've walked by the church fence where the shooter hid before firing that shot. Not too far from that location is the bench where the woman was sitting when she was shot. The bullet went through her body into the glass window of a restaurant...leaving just one small hole.
Until today, helicopters have been flying over our house daily. Other than that, business goes on as usual here.
posted on October 11, 2002 11:31:42 AM new
It's good to see you Helen! I've been thinking about you the last few days because of all this being so close to you. Don't forget... you're just a skip away from Canada... refuge from the upcoming dictatorship. We can help each other with eBay and I've got 2 remotes here for your husband.
posted on October 11, 2002 12:05:42 PM new
Kraftdinner,
You are wrong!
I think we already have a dictatorship! If he has done this much damage already, I can't imagine what will happen in the next two years. The democrats are a bunch of wimps.
Do you have room for me too?
Mz Laura gave a PBS station a tour of the White House right after the election. She said she would stay home and tend to her knitting. I wish she would put down the yarn and kick the little guy's butt across the room. Either that or offer up her daughters to go to war, in place of someone else's child.
I get some of the Maryland TV stations. The media is contributing to the problem. The child murderer is playing with the police as well as the morons broadcasting his every move.
posted on October 11, 2002 12:23:30 PM new
LOL! aposter
"I wish she would put down the yarn and kick the little guy's butt across the room."
You are right about the shooter too. He is playing a game with the media and the police. Now, they have him confined to an area in Virginia with road blocks. I hope it works.
posted on October 12, 2002 09:22:25 AM new
Charelton Heston wants to get to that guy before the police do. The NRA needs that guy...as an instructor. He is the perfect example of the NRA's belief in GUN CONTROL....
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A Man will spend $2.00 for a $1.00 item he needs.
A Woman will spend $1.00 for a $2.00 item she doesn't need.
Silver Spring, Md.---Just walk in, put down your $17.50(U.S), and walk out with a box of 20 hollow point Winchester.223-calibre bullets. No paperwork needed. No photo identification required.
It's that easy here at Atlantic Guns in Montgomery County, at the epicentre of what police call the "hot zone" where a sniper may have gunned down his 10th victim in nine days with .223 hollow point bullets.
Yesterday, a 53 year old Philadelphia man, was shot to death wiht a single bullet while pumping gas at an Exxon station in Fredericksburg, Va, about 60 kilometres southwest of Washington, D.C. Only 100 metres away, a police officer stood handling a traffic accident, in plain view of the shooting.
It's the same Spotsylvania County location where a sniper shot another woman in the parking lot of a craft store, where she was loading her bags into a minivan.
Yesterday's victim, Kenneth Bridges was the fourth shot at a gas station, and the third shot by a sniper this week.
Atlantic Guns is a nondescript little storefront in Silver Spring, sandwiched between a bank and a bookstore, a Safeway grocery store near its back door. It's one of several gun stores in the region.
Police have been in to see owner Stephen Schneider, whose father opened the shoop 51 years ago. Officers have gone through Schneider's rifle sales records. He sells several pump action and semi automatic rifles, bith new and used, which fire the .223 bullet.
"It (the.223) is extremely popular for target shooting competitions and for hunting," Schneider says.
He opens a box of the Winchester .223 bullets to show one to a reporter. The bullet, about five centimetres long has copper cladding over its lead centre. The tip narrows to a point, where there's a hole slightly larger than a pinprick.
"That's the hollow point," Schneider says. "It's very popular, both in competition rifle shooting and hunting. Guys out hunting deer, for example, don't want a bullet to pass right through the deer's hind quarter with the one shot they hit with. It could get away, wounded. They want a bullet like this that explodes on contact, doing the maximum amount of damage inside the body."
posted on October 12, 2002 01:23:23 PM new aposter! You're welcome to come and live here too.
I agree with your article Helen. It could be anyone with only a bit of training. They reported there might be 2 people involved (2 people seen in the white van with the ladder), so, if true, that makes it even more weird. I can see one person with a chip on their shoulder doing this, but 2. (???)
Where's gravid or krs? They're the gun guys... maybe they can help explain bullets and stuff.
posted on October 12, 2002 04:38:12 PM new
In spite of being able to teach someone to hit a man sized target in a half an hour, this shooter's kill rate is still quite amazing considering the condition he/she is operating in...I think we'll find that this person isn't just some crazy who went out and bought a box of bullets and a rifle....
A composite graphic issued by the FBI (news - web sites) and the Montgomery County, Md., police to the news media shows the white box truck that authorities say multiple witnesses reported seeing at more than one of the sniper shootings in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. The graphic was issued by police October 12, 2002, at Montgomery County police headquarters in Rockville, Md. (Reuters - Handout)
How can a shooter manage to travel in such a conspicuous vehicle?
posted on October 13, 2002 11:25:43 AM new
Yes, Helen, it seems like a truck that size would be pretty easy to spot.Perhaps putting that picture out is just a red herring to try to get the shooter to think they are on the wrong track? Who knows. I just hope they catch the A-H soon.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md.
In the endless media psychoanalysis and police profiling of the random murderer striking fear near the nation's capital, one possibility is rarely mentioned: that the sniper may be a terrorist affiliated with Al Qaeda or otherwise inspired by Osama bin Laden.
Odds are against a conspiracy. The consensus is that the multiple assassin is a domestic madman, the most recent in a long line of serial killers. Such disgruntled loners, pseudo-religious weirdos and cold-blooded psychotics lusting for fame and vengeance have plagued American society for generations.
But the venue chosen by the most recent shooter is the capital of the U.S., a primary target of worldwide terrorism. Police have speculated that the sniper might well have an accomplice, perhaps a driver or supplier, which suggests a terrorist cell. And the effect of the operation is to strike fear into ordinary Americans at the focal point of the nation's political decision-making and media coverage.
If these weekday murders are the acts of a homicidal maniac and not part of a terrorist conspiracy, then surely the plotters of last year's devastating strikes at the Pentagon and New York's twin towers are saying: What a perfect follow-up, cheap and simple and maddening. Why didn't we think of that? .........
posted on October 15, 2002 11:53:21 AM new
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A Man will spend $2.00 for a $1.00 item he needs.
A Woman will spend $1.00 for a $2.00 item she doesn't need.
Don't forget... you're just a skip away from Canada... refuge from the upcoming dictatorship. We can help each other with eBay and I've got 2 remotes here for your husband. 
