13 Year Old Boy Shot Outside Bowie, Md. Middle School, Not Known if Sniper Related

CNN Breaking news ^ | 07 OCT 02 | DCBryan1

[DCBryan1]

13 year old boy shot infront of school. Police scanners on!

[freeperfromnj]

If this is a terrorist planned attack it is likely that areas in NY City and Florida might be on the list for future atacks.

Agree. If we are to believe there was some sort of activation or code language in the audio released yesterday, those tapes did single out DC and NY

[relee]

Not even close.

It is kind of close to US 301 which goes kind of close to Fredericksburg. It is also close to I-95 which goes directly to Fredericksburg.

[Freedom2specul8]

Point well made. The simplest explanation is not so easy to understand sometimes--at least for me.

[Miss Marple]

Chief Moose started to lose it towards the end of the press conference. Started talking about parents assuring their children that they are safe and that we will not be afraid, voice cracking.

I will bet cash money it is terrorism and they are holding off to avoid panic. He begs parents to let the dismissal be orderly and not to panic.

[tall_tex]

I would doubt a 22 cal could leave a wound "the size of a coffe cup". I did a lot a hunting as a boy, used my trusty 22, shot a lot of longrifle hollowpoints, mostly on squirels and rabbits. The entry wound is 1/8th of an inch in diamater, the exit wound about the size of a dime. The range was usually maybe 50 feet. At 75 yards the velosity would have decreased and it would be doubtful that the bullet would have had enough steam left to exit the body.

I could be wrong.

[valleygal]

Yes, but Moose said just a few sentences later "geographical" profile which is what he meant to say. Geology is the study of rocks and minerals. It made me a "disgruntled" (not disgrumbled) listener to his news conference. :)

[OWK]

I looked on MapQuest... its not that far.

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge is perhaps 25 miles away.

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel (a different animal altogether) is more like 150 miles away.

Neither is a "stone's throw" by any stretch of the imagination.

[Dog]

Bullet is still in the child ....it shows up on XRays....as per FOX!

[Jackie222]

Only one shot, the report of two was a mistake.

Thanks, but he is wounded in two places? Chest and abdomin.

[two23]

"Hopefully Pat will be sued for that comment

Hell, I hope gets a free subscription from the folks at GUNS&AMMO

[Logic_3]

Neither is a "stone's throw" by any stretch of the imagination.

What kind of stone?, basalt?=??.

[Miss Marple]

Well, I am not going to get on him about his speech, since it isn't unusual to make errors under a lot of pressure. Besides, I like the word "disgrumbled." It is quite descriptive.

[Ryzaroo]

I used to live in Bowie. It's 20 mins to the Bay Bridge w/ no traffic....and it's a hop, skip,+ a jump to 495/95 and 301 runs right through it.

[JohnYankeeCmpsr]

If the stabbing was not enough, maybe blowing up the French oil tanker this weekend will help sway French public opinion.

Sway them from their usual quick surrender to tres reddition rapide?

[Freedom2specul8]

For gosh sakes..if the idiot thinks the sniper is local, and not a osama lover...she should just come out and say it instead of convicting everyone who has a pro-second mag as being potential snipers..GRRRRRR!!!

[Crowcreek]

" my pc mail carrier asked me if I was a "into" guns. I thought of Operation TIPS.

If a postal worker brought up the subject of 'guns' , I'd be thinking 'body armor' . . .

[OWK]

Bullet is still in the child ....it shows up on XRays....as per FOX!

Which means that the caliber designation (attributed to a paramedic) was BS...

My money's still on .223

[tomkat]

the worst aspect of this string of cowardly atrocities is that they may be merely Act 2, Scene 1 of the play that opened last september.

(wtc1/okc having been just casting calls)

[r9etb]

Bullet is still in the child ....it shows up on XRays....as per FOX!

If true, then unless the kid got shot with an elephant gun, I think we can rule out the existence of the "coffee-cup sized wound."

Watch it be a pistol round....

[Dog]

They show a highway next to this school any idea which one it is??