Posted on 04/25/2003 1:24:08 PM PDT by Timesink
TheWBALChannel.com
POSTED: 1:10 p.m. EDT April 25, 2003
UPDATED: 3:44 p.m. EDT April 25, 2003
The shooting was reported just before 1 p.m. at the garage next to the Comcast Center basketball arena, said Mark Brady, a fire department spokesman. The center is the new home to the Maryland Terrapins basketball team.
Both victims, who were not identified, were taken to local hospitals and are in "grave" condition, according to Capt. Andy Ellis, a spokesman for the Prince George's County Police Department.
"The initial call was for two shot," Ellis said. He said county homicide detectives were at the scene.
Police said the man pulled his car up behind the woman's car at about 12:45 p.m., blocking her into a parking space. Officers said he shot her while she sat in her car and he then turned the gun on himself.
Ellis said this "does not appear to be an act of random violence." He said police are not looking for a suspect. Police said they found a handgun in the garage.
The garage is on the edge of campus, just off University Boulevard (Md. Route 193), near the 17,100-seat Comcast Center.
Mark Scott, a university employee, said he was working in a maintenance building across from the garage when he heard two shots.
Scott said he heard "one shot and a second or so later, I heard another one."
University sophomore Xiomara Larios, 19, said she was trying to drive onto the third level of the garage when two people stopped her and told her there were two bodies lying on the deck ahead.
Larios said she did not see or hear anything. "It just happened so fast. I still can't believe two people got shot," Larios said.
Officers have also not released any information about possible motive or suspects.
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Man shoots woman, then self -- sounds like a standard-issue "estranged husband/boyfriend" murder-suicide attempt.
Bingo!!! You nailed it.
Maybe somebody just can't shoot. I don't care if you use a .454 Casull. If you can't hit what you're shooting at...well NOBODY ever died directly from a loud noise unless it was a heart attack.
Besides a .22 is what folks like MOSSAD and CIA uses, with a "can" (suppressor) hung on the end. In the end, it's never the caliber...it's a question of shot placement. You can drop an elephant with a .22....if you get him through the eye. Witness the exploits of W.M.D. (Karamojo) Bell. He was a turn of the 20th century elephant (as in Great White Bwana) hunter who was known to use a 6mm to hunt them...that's a .243 folks!
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