District Files Charges Against Sniper Suspects In Elderly Man's Slaying

Washinton Post ^ | 11/15/02 | Allan Lengel

[TexKat]

The District yesterday joined a growing list of jurisdictions to charge sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo.

The U.S. attorney's office in the District, the last of the Washington area jurisdictions with a confirmed shooting to file charges, named Muhammad and Malvo in a criminal complaint charging them with the first-degree murder of Pascal Charlot, 72, on a Northwest street corner Oct. 3.

A seven-page affidavit filed in D.C. Superior Court reiterates and in some cases illuminates information that has come out about the suspects. For example, the affidavit says that Malvo, 17, recently told investigators in Fairfax County that he remembered shooting an elderly black man in Washington.

It includes details of Muhammad's movements hours before the D.C. shooting, and a haunting call one of them made to authorities almost two weeks later boasting, "We're the people that are causing the killing in your area."

Malvo is being held in the Fairfax County jail, charged in the Oct. 14 slaying of FBI analyst Linda Franklin, 47, outside a Home Depot in Seven Corners. Muhammad is being held in Prince William County, charged with killing Dean Harold Meyers, 53, outside a Manassas area gas station. The two also are charged in several other jurisdictions and are suspected in 21 shootings -- 14 of them fatal -- in Maryland, the District, Virginia, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Washington state.

Also yesterday, Muhammad's attorney, Peter D. Greenspun, said he filed a petition in Fairfax County Circuit Court seeking a restraining order against local and federal law enforcement authorities. Greenspun declined to comment on the motion, which followed reports in The Washington Post detailing statements that sources said Malvo made to investigators. A hearing is scheduled today.

Meanwhile, Malvo's court-appointed guardian, Todd G. Petit, said he has filed a motion seeking to have Malvo transferred from the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center to the less-secure county juvenile detention center. A hearing could be held as early as today.

Petit declined to comment yesterday on the request. But last week, during Malvo's initial court appearance in Fairfax County, Petit made an identical motion that was denied by Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Judge Charles J. Maxfield.

"I believe it's in his best interest . . . to be housed with people of his own age," Petit said in the Nov. 8 hearing.

A grand jury in Baton Rouge yesterday charged the pair with first-degree murder in the death of Hong Im Ballenger, 45, who was killed during a robbery at the beauty products shop she managed. Ballistics tests positively linked the .223-caliber bullet used to kill Ballenger with the weapon used in the sniper killings.

The court papers in the District say that after the two were arrested Oct. 24 at a Maryland highway rest stop, authorities recovered an AT&T phone calling card from Muhammad's wallet. At 5:16 p.m., about four hours before the D.C. killing, the card was used at a phone booth across the street from the site of the shooting in the 7700 block of Georgia Avenue NW to call a cell phone in Baton Rouge, the affidavit said.

At 7:01 p.m., an officer in the 4400 block of Georgia Avenue NW pulled over Muhammad in a 1990 Chevrolet Caprice, checked the registration and license and let him go. Afterward, witnesses recalled seeing such a car driving away from the area with its headlights off.

The affidavit also mentions calls from the suspects to law enforcement officials. In one, at 11:33 a.m. Oct. 15, a man told a 911 dispatcher in Rockville, "We're the people that are causing the killing in your area." He added, "We have called you three times before trying to set negotiations."

The affidavit repeated earlier reports that Malvo's DNA was found on the rifle used in the shootings. In a joint statement, D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey and U.S. Attorney Roscoe C. Howard Jr. commended the sniper task force. Ramsey, who last week criticized D.C. prosecutors for being slow to file charges, said he hoped the action would bring some measure of relief to Charlot's family.

[Nick Thimmesch]

Good to see this posted: much to know, much to explain how the early on DC killing was put on the back burner, mostly by that clown Moose...DC was significant, including reputable witnesses -- as opposed to the "white van" ones as it turns out -- who reported seeing what turned out to be an accurate description of the car used by these worthless pieces of human debris to murder innocent Americans.

[TexKat]

Ping

[Grampa Dave]

This is more documentation of how the Politically Correct in Montgomery County were looking for only evil/vile white murderers. The killers could get their attention in three previous calls.

I can just hear their inner thoughts when Malvo or Mahammud called up to confess and try to talk, "Oops, we have to hang up, these guys are obviously not evil white southern crackers!"

The affidavit also mentions calls from the suspects to law enforcement officials. In one, at 11:33 a.m. Oct. 15, a man told a 911 dispatcher in Rockville, "We're the people that are causing the killing in your area." He added, "We have called you three times before trying to set negotiations."

This abortion of handling the data and calls as it came in re the sniper murders, will be documented as a prime example of Political Correctness that has reached its zenith in corrupting law enforcement.

[Grampa Dave]

correction:>"The killers could not get their attention in three previous calls.

[Future Useless Eater]

Nice find TexKat, that is new information! EVIDENCE OF AN ACCOMPLICE

• October 03 2002@. DC area - At 5:16pm, after four murders in the morning, and four hours before the killing of Pascal Charlot, age 72, on a DC street corner, Muhammad or Malvo used an AT&T phone calling card from a pay phone to call [a presumed accomplice on] a cell phone in Baton Rouge.
  [Reports from Antigua also said Muhammad often bought calling cards and made calls from pay phones.]

[Grampa Dave]

Is there any data about an al Fuqra group in Baton Rouge?

October 03 2002@. DC area - At 5:16pm, after four murders in the morning, and four hours before the killing of Pascal Charlot, age 72, on a DC street corner, Muhammad or Malvo used an AT&T phone calling card from a pay phone to call [a presumed accomplice on] a cell phone in Baton Rouge.

[TexKat]

Islamic Center of Baton Rouge 820 W Chimes Baton Rouge, LA

Muslim Center S6s4 Packard St Baton Rouge, LA

And I am still checking.

[TexKat]

Facts, key events in life of Al-Amin

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 18 Mar 2001

Name: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, born as Hubert Gerold Brown

Nickname: H. Rap Brown

Parents: Eddie C. Brown, an oil company worker, and Thelma (Warren) Brown

Age: 56

Born: Baton Rouge, La., Oct. 4, 1943

Education: Attended Southern University, 1960-64

Occupation: Leader of the Community Mosque of Atlanta; owner, the Community Store

Personal: Married to Karima, a lawyer; two children, Ali, Kairi

Background: Black activist and social commentator of the 1960s who became widely known as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Famous quote: "Violence is as American as cherry pie"

Milestones

Autobiography, Die Nigger Die (Dial Press, 1969) recounts how he developed a keen sense of the lowly status of blacks while growing up in Louisiana.

Rallied the support of angry African-Americans against the white establishment in the late 1960s by openly supporting acts of violence.

Became an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Alabama in 1966.

Named minister of justice for the Black Panther Party in 1968.

Accused in 1967 of instigating arson and riots in Cambridge, Md. "I hope they pick Brown up soon, put him away and throw away the key," said then-Gov. Spiro Agnew.

Disappeared before he could go to trial on the Cambridge charges and made the FBI's most-wanted list, but resurfaced near the scene of a holdup and shootout in New York City in 1971. Served five years in prison on robbery charges.

Converted to Islam while in prison and began using the name Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.

Paroled from prison in 1976, he moved to Atlanta, opened a small grocery and community store and became the leader of the Atlanta Community Mosque. Neighbors said the former activist worked hard to keep drugs and prostitution out of the area.

Accused in 1995 of aggravated assault after a man claimed he was shot by Al-Amin. The man later recanted and said he was pressured by authorities to identify Al-Amin as the shooter.

[TexKat]

Boston Globe Online / Nation | World / Suspects in terror probe ... ... Esam Hamdi, the son of a Saudi couple who was born in Baton Rouge, La., and ... The Bilal brothers began attending the Bilal Mosque (Bilal is a common Muslim name ... www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/279/nation/ Suspects_in_terror_probe_drawn_from_rank_and_file+.shtml - 31k

Could not pull up the entire article. You might give it a try.

[TexKat]

March 14, 2002 Posted: 1:54 AM EST (0654 GMT) Al-Amin listens to the sentencing in court on Wednesday. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A former Black Panther radical was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Wednesday for killing a deputy sheriff and wounding another officer as they were trying to serve an arrest warrant on him two years ago.

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin -- known as H. Rap Brown during his days as a Black Panther in the 1960s -- could have been sentenced to death.

Al-Amin was found guilty last weekend by a Fulton County jury on all 13</> counts he faced, including murder, felony murder, aggravated assault on a police officer, obstructing a law enforcement officer and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the feedback on La. and radical black so called Islamics and Black Panthers.

I bet that there is a group of al Fuqra in that state which is often left wing and tends to turn away from those who live a different life style.

[TexKat]

Could this be John Mohammad's way of getting back at the government for the life without parole sentencing of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, found guilty on March 9 and sentenced on March 13th?

Is Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin the one that they were chanting to free at the reparations rally in September in D.C.?

[Grampa Dave]

H Rap Brown could be one of the factors that motivated Mohammud.

I don't think that there was just a single factor. I believe that he was more in sync with the original bombers of the WTC and then off course those responsible for 9/11/2001. He would have sympathy for H Rap Brown, but I doubt if Brown was a really big motivator for him.