[OKSooner]

Yes, exactly, but I recall reading that the first people to respond to the situation were guys who just had .22's in their trucks. A common thing in Texas today, and even in Austin at that time.

[RCW2001]

Police on the lookout for mid-size car

Tabitha LaRue
WFLS News
Spotsylvania Captain Michael Timm confirms that a young lady whose age is not yet known has been shot in the Michael's Carft store parking lot just outside the mall. He says the lady was putting pachkages in the trunk of her Toyota hatchback when the bulet, which does not appear to be from a high powered rifle, hit her in the lower back.. Rescue workers have identified an exit wound, and police are now looking for the slug.  

 

She is concious and has been transported to Mary Washington. 

 

The big question in residents minds is whether or not this incident is related to yesterday's shooting of five peopel in Montgomery County Maryland. Forensic technicians on the scene, say this incident does NOT appear to be related to those shootings. 

 

A citizen who was nearby says he saw a light color, new, mid-sized car, possibly grey or silver, moving quicly towards the mall. Police say they are on the look out for this vehicle, and they are asking anyone who has any information to please contact them.

Date published: Fri, 10/04/2002

[wardaddy]

Yes....i remember. My dad always had a gun in the gun rack too...in Mississippi. It was a scoped Winchester Model 100 in .308.....

Don't see that so much today except in deer season.

I'm 44.

[dd5339]

Here's an interesting though. You've got the white, nondescript panel van driving through urban traffic. It stops for a stop light in traffic. The shooter opens his gun port/window/door, acquires a random target, and shoots. The driver drives off as soon as the light changes. For most of the area around where I work, this would mean a firing distance of anywhere from less than 50 meters to more than 400. Easily done with the proper firearm and stable shooting platform, (remember the van is stopped in traffic). The van would never be seen in a parking lot, would be highly mobile, and would fade into the background clutter of an urban setting.

Things that make me go hmmm...

Semper Fi