Two Men to Share Sniper Reward

A little more infor from CNN's site:

Robert Holmes of Tacoma, Washington, will receive $350,000 for providing information that led to the identification of the snipers. Whitney Donahue of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, will receive $150,000 for telephoning police after spotting Muhammad's car at a rest stop in Frederick County, Maryland.

As police started a nationwide investigation looking for clues in the sniper case in October 2002, Holmes called police to report that Muhammad and Malvo had been using a tree stump for target practice in the back yard of his house in Tacoma.

Donahue, 38, praised Holmes on Saturday night.

"If Holmes hadn't done what he did, I couldn't have been at the spot where I could help out," Donahue told CNN. "I feel good about it."

In the early hours of October 24, 2002, Donahue, a refrigerator mechanic, pulled into a rest stop in Myersville, Maryland, where he spotted a dark blue Chevrolet Caprice, similar to the car sought by authorities in the case, and called 911. Police found Muhammad and Malvo inside the car.

Donahue said he had been scared, but not so much as to stop him from acting.

"Without the crucial information provided by Mr. Holmes and without the phone call from Mr. Donahue, we could not have caught these suspects," Montgomery County, Maryland, Executive Douglas Duncan told reporters Saturday.

The sniper shootings started in Montgomery County on October 2, 2002. Ten people were killed and another three wounded before Malvo and Muhammad were arrested.

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