http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/1704925/detail.html
Former N.C. Man Wanted For Questioning In Shooting Spree
Man Is Reportedly Affilliated With White Supremacist Groups
POSTED: 9:35 a.m. EDT October 5, 2002
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Federal authorities reportedly want to question a former North Carolina resident about a string of fatal shootings in Montgomery County and Washington. The Raleigh news and Observer reports that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has issued a bulletin for Robert Gene Baker III, (pictured, right).
Baker is a former Raleigh resident, but it's unclear when he last lived there. Federal agents believe he's heading south from Washington and may have associates in Virginia and North Carolina.
The ATF reports says Baker's family members reported him missing on Monday. The report doesn't say where his family lives.
The bulletin described Baker as a drug user affiliated with various militia and white supremacist groups. He is white, 5-feet-9 and 195 pounds, with brown eyes, brown hair and tattoos on both arms and back.
He was said to be traveling south in a white 2000 GMC van with dark lettering. The vehicle has a Maryland registration.
The ATF says Baker is armed with a handgun and high-powered rifle and should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.
Investigators say the bullets used in three of the five fatal shootings in Montgomery County, Md., and one in Washington, D.C., were all fired from the same weapon.
An agent from the ATF says tests of the shell fragments yielded the match. Investigators are still analyzing fragments from two other fatal shootings in Montgomery County that police believe are linked to the others.
Investigators say the same weapon was used to shoot a cab driver at an Aspen Hill Mobil station, a woman at a Kensington Shell station, another woman in front of a post office in Silver Spring, and a 72-year-old man walking on Georgia Avenue, just inside the District line.
Police are still awaiting test results from a non-fatal shooting Friday in Spotsylvania County, Va. Killer May Strike Again
A Maryland police official says he's really worried that a multiple killer could strike again.
Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose says the suspect or suspects have shown a high degree of recklessness especially using the same gun in several killings. He says his worry level is high.
Moose begged the killer to surrender and "stop the madness."
Previous Stories:
October 4, 2002: Police Link D.C. Shooting To Suburban Attacks
October 3, 2002: Profilers Say Maryland Shooter Will Strike Again
Victims Of Shooting Spree
James Martin, 55, of Silver Spring, Md. Killed about 6:04 p.m. Wednesday, in the parking lot of Shoppers Food Warehouse grocery store in Wheaton
James L. "Sonny" Buchanan, 39, of Arlington, Va. Killed about 7:41 a.m. Thursday, while riding a lawnmower at Fitzgerald Auto Mall in White Flint. Buchanan's company provided landscaping services for the dealership
Prenkumar Walekar, 54, of Olney, Md. Killed about 8:12 a.m. Thursday, at a Mobil gas station, Aspen Hill Road and Connecticut Avenue in the Aspen Hill area
Sarah Ramos, 34, of Silver Spring, Md. Killed about 8:37 a.m. Thursday, outside a post office at 3802 International Boulevard in Silver Spring
Laurie Ann Lewis-Rivera, 25, of Silver Spring, Md. Killed about 9:58 a.m. Thursday at a Shell gas station at Knowles and Connecticut avenues in Kensington