Woman Dead in Virginia Shooting

Woman Dead in Virginia Shooting Mon Oct 14,11:10 PM ET By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - A woman was killed outside a Home Depot store Monday night, and police were trying to determine whether the shooting was related to the sniper spree responsible for eight deaths in the region in the past 12 days.

"A female has been shot and killed," said Fairfax County Police Lt. Amy Lubas. The woman was felled by a single shot at about 9:30 p.m., authorities. All the other deaths were also caused by one shot.

A police spokesman said roads were being closed in the area, about 10 miles west of Washington, D.C. The Maryland task force investigating the sniper attacks was conferring with Fairfax authorities to see if Monday's victim was the sniper's ninth.

Virginia State Police said they were on the lookout for a white Chevrolet Astro van, last seen traveling east on Route 50 from Falls Church. Interstates 66 and I-95 are nearby. Witnesses at some of the earlier shootings said a white van or truck left the scene.

The Home Depot is in the Seven Corners Shopping Center, a 450-thousand-square-foot strip shopping center with a parking garage. The center also has a grocery store, an electronics retailer and a pet supply retailer.

The body of the victim lay under a sheet is in the parking lot in front of the Home Depot, on the first floor of a two-story structure, 30 yards from the store entrance.

Kristin Reed, a supervisor at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in the sprawling strip mall, said six employees were locked inside the store with an FBI (news - web sites) agent.

"Cops and cops and more cops," Reed said of the scene outside. "There's a lot of people walking around."

Reed said no one heard the shot inside her store. But "a customer had just walked outside, then came back in and said `I think I heard a shot.'"

The federal agent in the bookstore "hasn't said anything to us. He was on the phone with someone," she said.

Earlier Monday, the longest lull yet in the Washington sniper's killing spree brought little relief as jittery residents flooded police with calls upon hearing car backfire, firecrackers or breaking glass.

"Everyone is edgy," said Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose, who is heading the investigation. "People are hearing things that may normally be overlooked."

President Bush (news - web sites) said the "cold-blooded" attacks have made him sick to his stomach. "I weep for those who have lost their loved ones," he said. "The idea of moms taking their kids to school and sheltering them from a potential sniper attack is not the America that I know."

Four police squad cars rushed to a Silver Spring car dealership Monday after the window of a customer's BMW shattered when he closed the door. The man dialed 911, thinking a bullet broke the glass.

"He had no idea what happened — he was just freaked out," said David Earhardt, the dealership's service manager.

"People hear a noise, they're going to call — they want to put an end to this just like we do," said Prince William County, Va., Detective Dennis Mangan, whose department brought in a helicopter to search the woods before determining a reported gunshot was just a car backfiring.

Authorities in Baltimore, meanwhile, seized a white van and found an assault rifle, sniper manual and ammunition similar to the .223 bullets used in attacks that have killed eight people and wounded two others, WBAL-TV reported.

MSNBC reported that a tarot card was found in the van and a sign on the dashboard read "Gihad in America." A tarot card was also found at one of the shootings.

"At this time, the task force believes this is not related to our sniper incidents," said Louise Marthens, a Montgomery County police spokeswoman.

Monday marked the sniper's longest break — two days and counting — since the killing spree began on Oct. 2. The sniper has shot 10 people in all. The eighth and latest killing came Friday morning when a 53-year-old Philadelphia man was gunned down in Spotsylvania County, Va., as he pumped gas. The killer has now gone two straight weekends without an attack.

Profilers say the long break could suggest the sniper is trying to outsmart police and change routine.

"Falling into a pattern is falling into a trap," said Robert K. Ressler, a former FBI profiler who helped investigators track killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer. "People this deep into aberrant behavior aren't just going to hang it up and call it quits. A week may go by now before they strike again, but I believe there are going to be more killings."

Monday was Columbus Day, a holiday for the many federal workers in the Washington area. By midday, none of the thousands of calls received by police were related to the sniper attacks. But as people went about their daily errands, many felt it was only a matter of time.

"He's luring people into being confident again," said Betty Charlton, who shopped with a friend at a Rockville shopping center.

With a new regional task force operating in the Washington area, authorities can immediately shut down roads and highways at the slightest possibility of a sniper shooting.

A 17-mile section of the Capital Beltway in Maryland was closed over the weekend after a woman was shot by an unidentified attacker. State troopers kept a vigil at the Woodrow Wilson Bridge over the Potomac River until it was determined the shooting was unrelated.

Many schools remained under lockdown Monday, meaning outdoor recess and physical education classes were canceled, and students were kept indoors all day.

In Fredericksburg, Va., a field hockey game was canceled at James Monroe High School. Monday night's rescheduled homecoming game was still on, but moved to a nearby rural county where there have been no shootings.

"I'm looking around for every white van I see," said Richard Spears, who was mowing grass at the school. "It makes you a little leery."

Composite drawings of the white box truck that the killer is believed to be using have "yielded good results," Moose said.

Also, Moose said people can now write as well as call with their tips. He gave an address: P.O. Box 7875, Gaithersburg, Md., 20898-7875.

Federal and local investigators refuse to discuss any details of the manhunt. But they have logged some consistencies: the killer favors suburban gas stations; takes down each victim with a single bullet; and, judging from the tarot card left at one of the shootings, appears to enjoy taunting police. It read: "Dear Policeman, I am God."

"I think this person is waiting for an opportune moment," said Navy chaplain Jane Vieira, who mailed a letter Monday at a Rockville shopping mall. "He is taking precautions. This guy isn't stupid."

St. Michael the Archangel

(Hebrew "Who is like God?").

St. Michael is one of the principal angels; his name was the war-cry of the good angels in the
battle fought in heaven against the enemy and his followers. Four times his name is recorded in
Scripture:

(1) Daniel 10:13 sqq., Gabriel says to Daniel, when he asks God to permit the Jews to return to
Jerusalem: "The Angel [D.V. prince] of the kingdom of the Persians resisted me . . . and, behold
Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me . . . and none is my helper in all these things,
but Michael your prince";

(2) Daniel 12, the Angel speaking of the end of the world and the Antichrist says: "At that time
shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people."

(3) In the Catholic Epistle of St. Jude: "When Michael the Archangel, disputing with the devil,
contended about the body of Moses", etc. St. Jude alludes to an ancient Jewish tradition of a
dispute between Michael and Satan over the body of Moses, an account of which is also found
in the apocryphal book on the assumption of Moses (Origen, "De principiis", III, 2, 2). St. Michael
concealed the tomb of Moses; Satan, however, by disclosing it, tried to seduce the Jewish
people to the sin of hero-worship. St. Michael also guards the body of Eve, according to the
"Revelation of Moses" ("Apocryphal Gospels", etc., ed. A. Walker, Edinburgh, p. 647).

(4) Apocalypse 12:7, "And there was a great battle in heaven, Michael and his angels fought
with the dragon." St. John speaks of the great conflict at the end of time, which reflects also the
battle in heaven at the beginning of time. According to the Fathers there is often question of St.
Michael in Scripture where his name is not mentioned. They say he was the cherub who stood
at the gate of paradise, "to keep the way of the tree of life" (Gen., iii, 24), the angel through
whom God published the Decalogue to his chosen people, the angel who stood in the way
against Balaam (Numbers 22:22 sqq.), the angel who routed the army of Sennacherib (IV Kings
19:35).

Following these Scriptural passages, Christian tradition gives to St. Michael four offices:

To fight against Satan.
To rescue the souls of the faithful from the power of the enemy, especially at the hour
of death.
To be the champion of God's people, the Jews in the Old Law, the Christians in the New
Testament; therefore he was the patron of the Church, and of the orders of knights
during the Middle Ages.
To call away from earth and bring men's souls to judgment ("signifer S. Michael
repraesentet eas in lucam sanctam", Offert. Miss Defunct. "Constituit eum principem
super animas suscipiendas", Antiph. off. Cf. "Hermas", Pastor, I, 3, Simil. VIII, 3).

Regarding his rank in the celestial hierarchy opinions vary; St. Basil (Hom. de angelis) and other
Greek Fathers, also Salmeron, Bellarmine, etc., place St. Michael over all the angels; they say he
is called "archangel" because he is the prince of the other angels; others (cf. P. Bonaventura,
op. cit.) believe that he is the prince of the seraphim, the first of the nine angelic orders. But,
according to St. Thomas (Summa, I:113:3) he is the prince of the last and lowest choir, the
angels. The Roman Liturgy seems to follow the Greek Fathers; it calls him "Princeps militiae
coelestis quem honorificant angelorum cives". The hymn of the Mozarabic Breviary places St.
Michael even above the Twenty-four Elders. The Greek Liturgy styles him Archistrategos,
"highest general" (cf. Menaea, 8 Nov. and 6 Sept.).

VENERATION

It would have been natural to St. Michael, the champion of the Jewish people, to be the champion
also of Christians, giving victory in war to his clients. The early Christians, however, regarded
some of the martyrs as their military patrons: St. George, St. Theodore, St. Demetrius, St.
Sergius, St. Procopius, St. Mercurius, etc.; but to St. Michael they gave the care of their sick. At
the place where he was first venerated, in Phrygia, his prestige as angelic healer obscured his
interposition in military affairs. It was from early times the centre of the true cult of the holy
angels, particularly of St. Michael. Tradition relates that St. Michael in the earliest ages caused a
medicinal spring to spout at Chairotopa near Colossae, where all the sick who bathed there,
invoking the Blessed Trinity and St. Michael, were cured.

Still more famous are the springs which St. Michael is said to have drawn from the rock at
Colossae (Chonae, the present Khonas, on the Lycus). The pagans directed a stream against
the sanctuary of St. Michael to destroy it, but the archangel split the rock by lightning to give a
new bed to the stream, and sanctified forever the waters which came from the gorge. The
Greeks claim that this apparition took place about the middle of the first century and celebrate a
feast in commemoration of it on 6 September (Analecta Bolland., VIII, 285-328). Also at Pythia in
Bithynia and elsewhere in Asia the hot springs were dedicated to St. Michael.

At Constantinople likewise, St. Michael was the great heavenly physician. His principal
sanctuary, the Michaelion, was at Sosthenion, some fifty miles south of Constantinople; there the
archangel is said to have appeared to the Emperor Constantine. The sick slept in this church at
night to wait for a manifestation of St. Michael; his feast was kept there 9 June. Another famous
church was within the walls of the city, at the thermal baths of the Emperor Arcadius; there the
synaxis of the archangel was celebrated 8 November. This feast spread over the entire Greek
Church, and the Syrian, Armenian, and Coptic Churches adopted it also; it is now the principal
feast of St. Michael in the Orient. It may have originated in Phrygia, but its station at
Constantinople was the Thermae of Arcadius (Martinow, "Annus Graeco-slavicus", 8 Nov.).
Other feasts of St. Michael at Constantinople were: 27 October, in the "Promotu" church; 18
June, in the Church of St. Julian at the Forum; and 10 December, at Athaea.

The Christians of Egypt placed their life-giving river, the Nile under the protection of St. Michael;
they adopted the Greek feast and kept it 12 November; on the twelfth of every month they
celebrate a special commemoration of the archangel, but 12 June, when the river commences to
rise, they keep as a holiday of obligation the feast of St. Michael "for the rising of the Nile",
euche eis ten symmetron anabasin ton potamion hydaton.

At Rome the Leonine Sacramentary (sixth century) has the "Natale Basilicae Angeli via Salaria",
30 September; of the five Masses for the feast three mention St. Michael. The Gelasian
Sacramentary (seventh century) gives the feast "S. Michaelis Archangeli", and the Gregorian
Sacramentary (eighth century), "Dedicatio Basilionis S. Angeli Michaelis", 29 Sept. A manuscript
also here adds "via Salaria" (Ebner, "Miss. Rom. Iter Italicum", 127). This church of the Via Salaria
was six miles to the north of the city; in the ninth century it was called Basilica Archangeli in
Septimo (Armellini, "Chiese di Roma", p. 85). It disappeared a thousand years ago. At Rome also
the part of heavenly physician was given to St. Michael. According to an (apocryphal?) legend
of the tenth century he appeared over the Moles Hadriani (Castel di S. Angelo), in 950, during the
procession which St. Gregory held against the pestilence, putting an end to the plague. Boniface
IV (608-15) built on the Moles Hadriani in honour of him, a church, which was styled St.
Michaelis inter nubes (in summitate circi).

Well known is the apparition of St. Michael (a. 494 or 530-40), as related in the Roman Breviary,
8 May, at his renowned sanctuary on Monte Gargano, where his original glory as patron in war
was restored to him. To his intercession the Lombards of Sipontum (Manfredonia) attributed their
victory over the Greek Neapolitans, 8 May, 663. In commemoration of this victory the church of
Sipontum instituted a special feast in honour of the archangel, on 8 May, which has spread over
the entire Latin Church and is now called (since the time of Pius V) "Apparitio S. Michaelis",
although it originally did not commemorate the apparition, but the victory.

In Normandy St. Michael is the patron of mariners in his famous sanctuary at Mont-Saint-Michel in
the diocese of Coutances. He is said to have appeared there, in 708, to St. Aubert, Bishop of
Avranches. In Normandy his feast "S. Michaelis in periculo maris" or "in Monte Tumba" was
universally celebrated on 18 Oct., the anniversary of the dedication of the first church, 16 Oct.,
710; the feast is now confined to the Diocese of Coutances. In Germany, after its evangelization,
St. Michael replaced for the Christians the pagan god Wotan, to whom many mountains were
sacred, hence the numerous mountain chapels of St. Michael all over Germany.

The hymns of the Roman Office are said to have been composed by St. Rabanus Maurus of
Fulda (d. 856). In art St. Michael is represented as an angelic warrior, fully armed with helmet,
sword, and shield (often the shield bears the Latin inscription: Quis ut Deus), standing over the
dragon, whom he sometimes pierces with a lance. He also holds a pair of scales in which he
weighs the souls of the departed (cf. Rock, "The Church of Our Fathers", III, 160), or the book of
life, to show that he takes part in the judgment. His feast (29 September) in the Middle Ages was
celebrated as a holy day of obligation, but along with several other feasts it was gradually
abolished since the eighteenth century (see FEASTS). Michaelmas Day, in England and other
countries, is one of the regular quarter-days for settling rents and accounts; but it is no longer
remarkable for the hospitality with which it was formerly celebrated. Stubble-geese being
esteemed in perfection about this time, most families had one dressed on Michaelmas Day. In
some parishes (Isle of Skye) they had a procession on this day and baked a cake, called St.
Michael's bannock.

Here's some info on the Crusades from this web site
(http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04543c.htm)

The Crusades were expeditions undertaken, in fulfilment of a solemn vow, to deliver the Holy Places from Mohammedan tyranny.

The origin of the word may be traced to the cross made of cloth and worn as a badge on the outer garment of those who took part in these enterprises. Medieval writers use the terms crux (pro cruce transmarina, Charter of 1284, cited by Du Cange s.v. crux), croisement (Joinville), croiserie (Monstrelet), etc. Since the Middle Ages the meaning of the word crusade has been extended to include all wars undertaken in pursuance of a vow, and directed against infidels, i.e. against Mohammedans, pagans, heretics, or those under the ban of excommunication. The wars waged by the Spaniards against the Moors constituted a continual crusade from the eleventh to the sixteenth century; in the north of Europe crusades were organized against the Prussians and Lithuanians; the extermination of the Albigensian heresy was due to a crusade, and, in the thirteenth century the popes preached crusades against John Lackland and Frederick II. But modern literature has abused the word by applying it to all wars of a religious character, as, for instance, the expedition of Heraclius against the Persians in the seventh century and the conquest of Saxony by Charlemagne. The idea of the crusade corresponds to a political conception which was realized in Christendom only from the eleventh to the fifteenth century; this supposes a union of all peoples and sovereigns under the direction of the popes. All crusades were announced by preaching. After pronouncing a solemn vow, each warrior received a cross from the hands of the pope or his legates, and was thenceforth considered a soldier of the Church. Crusaders were also granted indulgences and temporal privileges, such as exemption from civil jurisdiction, inviolability of persons or lands, etc. Of all these wars undertaken in the name of Christendom, the most important were the Eastern Crusades, which are the only ones treated in this article.

If this is a plausible theory, perhaps the terrorists are applying, in reverse (now to us), the Crusades originally directed against them during the middle ages.

We have heard that the death card, the tarot card, was a "crusader" death card, perhaps like this one:

TABLE REV # 6 - 10/14/02 Late evening THIS ANIMAL NEEDS TO BE STOPPED!!! If you find errors on this table - Please privately FReep mail me (brigette), so that I do not miss your message. This table was created on 10/12/02 and it has been revised 4 times since 10/12/02
Date/Time (time in between shootings)	Location & Mileage from last location	Victim Name Shooting #, (Victim #), & (Death #)	Sex	Ethnicity	Age & Victims Home	Condition	Circumstances
10/2/02 5:20 PM Wednesday Click here for USGS aerial photograph taken in 1988 - Red Marker points to exact address location of 13850 Georgia Ave - Michaels is the second building over to the left of the red marker	Michaels Craft Store 13850 Georgia Ave Aspen Hill, MD	No Injuries Shooting #1 (Victim #0)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Store Window Shot through - Bullet just misses a female store clerk
10/2/02 6:04 PM Wednesday (44 mins) Click here for USGS aerial photograph taken in 1988 - Red Marker points to exact address location of 2201 Randolph Rd - Shoppers Food Warehouse is the large build just to the left of the red marker	Shoppers Food Warehouse 2201 Randolph Rd Wheaton, MD (2.60 miles from 13850 Georgia Ave)	James D. Martin Shooting #2 (Victim #1) (1st to die)	Male	Caucasian	55 Silver Spring, Md	Dead	Shot while standing in parking lot of Shoppers Food Warehouse
10/3/02 7:41 AM Thursday (13 hrs & 37 mins) Click here for USGS aerial photograph taken in 1988 - Red Marker points to exact address location of 11407 Rockville Pike	Fitzgerald Auto Mall 11407 Rockville Pike Kensington, MD (4.89 miles from 2201 Randolph Rd)	James L. "Sonny" Buchanan Shooting #3 (Victim #2) (2nd to die)	Male	Caucasian	39 Arlington, Va	Dead	Shot while mowing lawn at Auto Mall
10/3/02 8:12 AM Thursday (31 mins) Click here for USGS aerial photograph taken in 1988 - Red Marker points to exact address location of 4100 Aspen Hill Rd	Mobil Gas Station 4100 Aspen Hill Rd Rockville, MD (4.62 miles from 11407 Rockville Pike)	Prem Kumar A Walekar Shooting #4 (Victim #3) (3rd to die)	Male	Indian (Born in India)	54 Olney, Md.	Dead	Shot while pumping gas into his Taxi Cab
10/3/02 8.37 AM Thursday (25 mins) Click here for USGS aerial photograph taken in 1988 - Red Marker points to exact address location of 3802 International Dr - PO is located in the strip mall just below the red marker	USPS Post Office 3802 International Dr Silver Spring, MD (1.85 miles from 4100 Aspen Hill Rd)	Sarah Ramos Shooting #5 (Victim #4) (4th to die)	Female	Hispanic (Immigrant from El Salvador)	34 Silver Spring, Md	Dead	Shot in head while sitting on the park bench in front of the PO
10/3/02 9:58 AM Thursday (1 hr & 28 mins) Click here for USGS aerial photograph taken in 1988 - Red Marker points to exact address location of 10515 Connecticut Ave	Shell Gas Station 10515 Connecticut Ave Kensington, MD (5.0 miles from 3802 International Dr)	Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera Shooting #6 (Victim #5) (5th to die)	Female	Caucasian	25 Silver Spring, Md	Dead	Shot while vacuuming her mini van
10/3/02 9:20 PM Thursday (11 hrs & 22 mins) Click here for USGS aerial photograph taken in 1988 - Red Marker points to exact address location of 1100 block of Kalmia Rd	Street Corner of Georgia Ave & 1100 Block of Kalmia Rd. NW, Washington DC (4.79 miles from 10515 Connecticut Ave)	Pascal Charlot Shooting #7 (Victim #6) (6th to die)	Male	African American	72 Washington, D.C	Dead	Shot below the neck while crossing the street
10/4/02 2:30 PM Friday (17 hrs & 10 mins) Click here for USGS aerial photograph taken in 1989 - Red Marker points to exact address location of 299 Spotsylvania Mall - Michaels is the large building to the right of the red marker	Parking Lot of Michaels Craft Store in Spotsylvania County 299 Spotsylvania Mall Fredericksburg, VA (68.32 miles from 1100 Block of Kalmia Rd. NW)	Identity Withheld Shooting #8 (Victim #7) (1st Wounded, 1st to Survive)	Female	Caucasian	43 Withheld	Wounded and now released from hospital	Shot in the back while loading packages in her car
10/7/02 8:08 AM Monday (65 hrs & 38 mins) Click here for USGS aerial photograph taken in 1993 - Red Marker points to exact address location of 4901 Collington Rd	Benjamin Tasker Middle School 4901 Collington Rd Bowie MD (70.58 miles from 299 Spotsylvania Mall)	Identity Withheld Shooting #9 (Victim #8) (2nd Wounded, 2nd to Survive)	Male	African American	13 Withheld	Wounded and in critical but stable condition	Shot when he was dropped off at school by his Aunt. Death Tarot card left behind by sniper with the words handwritten on the card. Dear Policeman, "I am God" and 1 bullet shell was found also near the tarot card
10/9/02 8:18 PM Wednesday (60 hrs & 10 mins) Click here for USGS aerial photograph taken in 1989 - Red Marker points to exact address location of 7203 Sudley Rd	Sunoco Gas Station 7203 Sudley Rd (Rt 234) and Balls Ford Road, Prince William County, Manassas, VA (52.51 miles from 4901 Collington Rd)	Dean H Meyers Shooting #10 (Victim #9) (7th to die)	Male	Caucasian	53 Gaithersburg, Md	Dead	Shot in head while pumping gas into his car.
10/11/02 9:30 AM Friday (37 hrs 12 mins) Click here for USGS aerial photograph taken in 1994 - Red Marker points to exact address location of 5326 Jefferson Davis Hwy	Exxon Gas Station 5326 Jefferson Davis Hwy Massaponax, VA (54.34 miles from 7203 Sudley Rd)	Kenneth Bridges Shooting #11 (Victim #10) (8th to die)	Male	African American	53 Philadelphia, PA	Dead	Shot in Upper Left Back while pumping gas into his rental car.
10/14/02 9:15 PM Monday (83 hrs 15 mins) Click here for USGS aerial photograph taken in 1988 - Red Marker points to address location of 6210 Seven Corners Ctr - it is to the left of the red marker and is the 3 section long building	Parking Lot of Home Depot at Seven Corners Shopping Center 6210 Seven Corners Ctr Falls Church, VA 22044 Fairfax County	Identity Not Released Yet Shooting #12 (Victim #11) (9th to die)	Female	Caucasian	Unknown Unknown	Dead	Shot while loading goods purchased from Home Depot into car. Her husband may have been with her. A 1970's Cream Chevy Astro Van was seen in the area. It has a right tail light out Also another Michaels Craft Store is in the strip mall. Seven Corners stands for 7 highways connecting at this location.

Aerial Maps will open in a new window and they are interactive, you can zoom in or out on them.
Actual addresses were looked up using Yahoo's Yellow Pages and checking the maps
Point to point mileage was taken from Mapquest by entering in each address from the previous shooting address
The rest of the information was taken from several media sources like FOX, CNN, etc...

Rev1 on 10/12/02 - Fixed hours that had passed between the first killing and the second

Rev2 on 10/13/02
Added Days of the Week to Table (suggested by "Timpad")
Added on Kenneth Bridges "while pumping gas into his rental car."
Added Tarot Card/Bullet Shell Info.
Corrected Fitzgerald Auto Mall Address (address is wrong in published media reports, address is now corrected on this table)
Put in exact address for Mobil Gas Station in Aspen Hill
Put in exact address for Shell Gas Station at Connecticut & Knowles
Added point to point mileage

Rev3 on 10/13/02
Removed PM time for 10/11/02 Shooting and added correct time

Rev4 on 10/14/02
Added aerial picture links - Corrected a couple of actual shooting addresses

Rev5 on 10/14/02
Fixed mileage and address for shooting #5 & #6 (Media is giving Leisure Worlds Address... I located the actual PO Address and but in the correct address.

Rev6 on 10/14/02
Added lastest shooting victim information

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