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Did you notice how close that shooting on Georgia Ave. was to Takoma Park, tgsltakoma?

Yes, I did. It's part of my commuter route home some evenings. Depending on the time of day, I drive right past the shooting location. Some nights when I'm coming home from a night on call I stop at the McD's for a milk shake.

Last night I heard of the Georgia Ave shooting as I was driving home from a call, so I came straight home via a different route.

Tonight listening to the media briefing, and hearing that the DC shooting is part of the sniper attack, I'm getting really pissed-off. So much so that I have said "pissed-off" three times tonight rather than my usual polite "PO'd."

And again, now that this DC shooting is linked with three of the others, Kalmia Rd and Georgia Ave is within sight of Jessup Blair Park.

Investigators should be able to get an idea of direction of shot fired, by examining wound path, shouldn't they? Will they tell us if the shots appear to have been fired from the park-like areas in the vicinity of the shootings?

(big sarcasm alert)
OK, I am now convinced that there is nothing to see here. And it's definitely not a terrorist event. I'm going to take a shower now. And tomorrow I will go shopping. (Not bloody likely, Doug Duncan!)

"Investigators should be able to get an idea of direction of shot fired, by examining wound path, shouldn't they? Will they tell us if the shots appear to have been fired from the park-like areas in the vicinity of the shootings?"

As per above, the guy who's in charge of DC's end of the one DC homicide, Lt. Dave Jackson, is actually really really good. He will totally get the crime scene right. Re will they tell you what they know: unless there are leaks, no. Actually, the by-the-book approach here will be to say as little as they can about the angle of the shot etc. That's for lots of good reasons. First, so that, when they catch the creep, and keep him up for 3 days on coca-cola, if he says stuff that members of the public don't know that will incriminate him. Second, so they don't teach his prospective criminal defense attorney too much about the crime and get that attorney working early on inventing a pack of lies. Etc., etc.

Here's a tougher question: if they knew something which, if known by the members of the public, would affect our safety precautions but would disclose details of the crime, would they tell us? Answer: if this was just a DC investigation, probably not: very highest goal is catching the guy. But this is region wide and FBI is on it, so the answer in probably yes.