It's absolutely tragic. Marylanders, beware.
11:08 a.m. EDT October 3, 2002 - Police in Montgomery County, Md., are trying to determine if they have an apparent shooting spree on their hands.
Montgomery County police spokeswoman Capt. Nancy Demme told reports that police are "an ongoing crime that we have not experienced before." Demme said starting Wednesday night about 5:20, there was a shot fired at the Northgate Shopping Center, but no one was hit. Then less than an hour later in the parking lot of a Shoppers Food Warehouse in Wheaton, Md., Demme said, another shot was fired killing a 55-year-old man. Then at 7:41 this morning, in the 1100 block of Rockville Pike, in Rockville, Demme said a Hispanic male operating a lawn mower was shot and killed and at 8:12 at the Mobile gas station at Aspen Hill Road and Connecticut Avenue, also in Rockville, a man was pumping gas when he was shot and killed. Demme said at 8:37 a Hispanic woman was shot and killed while sitting on a bench outside a post office in the 3700 block of Rossmore Boulevard in Silver Spring. Demme said as she was preparing to update reporters, another shooting was reported at Connecticut Avenue and Knowles Street at a Shell gas station, and a person there is also dead. Police said they are looking for two men in a Isuzu type vehicle, a box truck with black lettering on it with damage to the rear-lift door.
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The above from: http://www.packing.org/state/index.jsp/maryland
You know, innocent people die when only criminals are allowed to be armed.
But, the good folks of Maryland are reaping the fruits of their socialism.
To bad about the ones shoot, but when the voters of a state put in office extreme left wing liberals who are to cowardly to trust their own citizens to be armed, well, the voters get what they deserve.
Multiple Shootings Across Montgomery County - As Many As Five Dead
(Undated-AP) -- Montgomery County police are working to solve five fatal shootings that took place in the last 15 hours.
Police are looking for two individuals in a white Isuzu S-U-V that some damaged to a tailgate after several witnesses said they saw the vehicle leaving the scene of some shootings.
Montgomery County police don't know if the crimes are connected.
Spokeswoman Nancy Demme says the first one took place last night, a 55-year-old man who was killed in the parking lot of a grocery store in Wheaton.
At around 7:41 this morning, in the 11-thousand block of Rockville Pike, a Hispanic man on a lawnmower was shot and killed.
At 8:12, at the Mobil gas station on Aspen Hill Road at Connecticut Avenue, a black male pumping gas was gunned down and a half hour later at the post office of the Leisure World retirement community, a Hispanic woman was shot in the head.
Another shooting was reported at ten this morning of a shooting at a Shell gas station on Knowles Avenue at Connecticut Avenue.
Copyright 2002 The Associated Press
As most DC Chapter FReepers know, I drive a white Isuzu... be assured that I am not involved. I'm not saying this to be funny in any way.
I am home from work today, preparing for a crowd of teenagers here tomorrow night, and had planned on running errands today. I think that's out for the time being...
Montogmery County folks, be careful out there.