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if the shooter was actually in the lot at 7 Corners

No, I'm saying they were on the access road just outside the lot. The witness account that they were "near the entrance" could mean the back parking lot entrance, behind Fortune restaurant, which certainly puts them on the access road.

Go 100 yards to the end of the access road, there's a stop sign, not a light. Make a right onto Patrick Henry, drive 200 yards, and you're at the Rt. 7 light. Make a right, and you're headed back to Seven Corners. A left, and you're headed toward Bailey's Crossroads.

The right takes you to more traffic, more lights, more complication, the horrible Seven Corners intersection (not to mention right back to the scene of the crime). The left puts you on on a straight shot down Rt. 7, enough traffic to blend in, but not enough to impede your progress. And as another poster mentioned, plenty of places to turn off if you get skittish.

These shooters seem to be very meticulous (almost diabolical) in choosing escape routes. By process of elimination, Rt. 7 east seems to me most likely.

They know from Friday they have only a few minutes (5? 10? 15?) before the police begin swarming the area and installing roadblocks on all major roads. So where did they stop?

The right takes you to more traffic, more lights, more complication, the horrible Seven Corners intersection (not to mention right back to the scene of the crime). The left puts you on on a straight shot down Rt. 7, enough traffic to blend in, but not enough to impede your progress. And as another poster mentioned, plenty of places to turn off if you get skittish.

This had to have been scoped out well in advance by a person thinking "getaway".

These shooters seem to be very meticulous (almost diabolical) in choosing escape routes. By process of elimination, Rt. 7 east seems to me most likely.

Which takes them toward the big mosque xsmommy was talking about.

They know from Friday they have only a few minutes (5? 10? 15?) before the police begin swarming the area and installing roadblocks on all major roads. So where did they stop?

This is an Arab hit team working. Gotta be. This is no young-urban-failure, no Phineas-priest type, and no teeny thrill killer (though the Tarot card still sounds like it -- unless it was disinformation). Meanwhile, the same thing is going on in Kuwait, with loser assassins engaging armed Marines there. Plug it in, guys.

This is starting to sound real bad.

This morning I am considering the possibility that there are many different shooters, from different small terror cells, located around the DC area and within walking distance of the malls, shopping centers, and gas stations.

Each has a date, spot, and approximate time to take someone out. They do so, and walk away in the confusion to their apartment, busy store, movie theater, or coffee shop of choice.

The rest of this is just making up stories on the part of LE and the media to explain away reality. What has turned my thinking this way is the description of the traffic snarls in the area of last night's shooting.

Shoppers carry bags capable of concealing weapons, don't they? Are dumpsters being searched for throw away weapons?

Not to say that decoy vehicles are not being used, of course, but it occurs to me that all possibilities are not being considered here, in the rush to pin this on a lone guyman, relieving LE and Government of the terrorism prospect and it's consquelae!

To consider the possibility of multiple shooters from different small cells blows the preferred theories out of the water, and really creates nightmare scenarios for LE, the courts, and the goobmint!

Thanks for providing all that great information.

"Go 100 yards to the end of the access road, there's a stop sign, not a light. Make a right onto Patrick Henry, drive 200 yards, and you're at the Rt. 7 light. Make a right, and you're headed back to Seven Corners. A left, and you're headed toward Bailey's Crossroads"

Or the perp could go straight at the light into the Lake Barcroft community and you can get to Columbia Pike, route 50, the beltway, route 395, route 7 or a vast area of older homes to hide near in 15 minutes at that time of the night. It took the police 15 minutes to set up roadblocks.