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!

[relee]

The BATF has brought in a shell casing sniffing dog and the media is being cleared from the area so the dog can work.

[floriduh voter]

Michael is the angel of darkness per posters re: Islam. Since they can't go to mosques because of wiretapping, they do stuff at Michaels. (if these are terrorists, which I believe they are). There's more than one sniper too. They take turns.

[GreyWolf]

I believe the police helicopters are still grounded due to a series of accidents not too long ago. They could be back up in the air, but I don't recall hearing about it.

Maryland has a lot of helicopters. The State Police operate 8 "Trooper" units which are equiped as LE and EMS transport. The City of Baltimore now has (I think) 4 brand new jet patrol craft, and each TV station has one, so it certainly is possible to get them all airborne. In fact, I have seen times when the news choppers were very clearly interfering with the "Troopers" getting in and out of accident and crime scenes. Breaking news has become a big time thing here in Socialist MD.

[Diogenesis]

Badabing. Sounds right.

So many dots. So much media and administrative myopia.

[texson66]

I believe you will find that Moose was, as another FReeper said, "joined at the hip with Mayor Vera Katz"(Left Wing, Wild-eyed Liberal). Moose was the CoP in Portland who would not allow the FBI to interview local muslims after 9/11. Moose, I believe, is an embaressment to the Mont Co police. I know I wince and have to switch to another channel when I hear him try to communicate on TV press conferences.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Other security experts also noted al Qaida training exercises involved urban hit- and-run ambushes using pickup trucks and motorcycles. One taped sequence shows a two-man team on a motorcycle attacking a moving motorcade with explosives while another team opens fire from the back of an open van. Other secret al Qaida training consisted of a mock raid on a U.S. embassy in which the American flag is actually burned. The captured documents also included a codebook apparently used by bin Laden to give instructions to his international network by quoting select phrases from the Koran. For example, "Allah-u-Akbar" -- "God is great" -- uttered at a certain point on a televised videotape, could mean "lie low."

[Lion's Cub]

. I couldn't understand the logic to his line of thinking with a sniper on the loose and a terrorist threat against American schools. Why won't the authorities connect these two dots?

They are mostly democrats--and I'm serious. They can't quite bring themselves to believe that everything they've believed in is a lie.

[phasma proeliator]

Thanks for the ping.

[harpseal]

Given that I agree totally with you on this point I can not claim to be any smarter.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[finnman69]

Does anyone know how likely it is that this kid will make it after being hit twice assuming it's the same shooter and the same weapon being used? I imagine this poor boy's insides are like scrambled eggs after being shot twice.

[Freedom2specul8]

You could be right.

It sure is some kind of terrorist. I'm not so sure osama's terrorists are in disarray. I don't remember a lot about the 1st world trade center attack...but how many attacks since then has osama been involved in towards us that we know about? The boat incident..sorry names are failing me this morning..and 9/11. Doesn't it seem like he tends to space his attacks "out".

[relee]

Hmmm. Just heard on the radio they think the school shooter was about 75 yards away from the boy when he was shot.

Channel 9 TV reporter said the police said this was a .22, not a .223

[Bella]

MSNBC---Washington Post newsreporter, Hamil Harris, saying that the schools have been on alert for something happening like this...people thought they were safe..seems it's going around the capitol beltway and no one saw anything..

[angkor]

But on foot seems very plausible to me.

The Thursday shootings prove that wrong.

It would be impossible to cover the ground of the four Thursday shootings in the 2-hour window of 8:00 to 10:00 AM, and to walk around completely unnoticed in a dense suburban area with a rifle, during rush hour.

That part of Rockville/Kensington is ridiculously crowded during weekday rish hour.

Also, if I recall the intersection of Rt. 50 and 197 (todays shooting) is a huge open area of several acres, and it is probably one of the busier rush hour intersections in that part of Maryland.

IMHO, this could only have been done from a parked vehicle, but parked in such a way as to draw no attention during rush hour. That's kind of hard to figure given where these shootings occurred.

Presumably the police have done their weekend forensics and by now have a pretty good idea of where the shooter was positioned.

I would guess that says a lot about the sort of perp they're dealing with (wouldn't the perp's training and MO show up in a consistent distance, angle, mode of cover, how they position themselves relative to target, etc?)

[Freedom2specul8]

What can we learn from the distance? (aside from the obvious stuff) Anything not so obvious?

[harpseal]

No, but it helps

It is actually more the crazed nut and irrational types who object to gun ownership.

[finnman69]

One taped sequence shows a two-man team on a motorcycle attacking a moving motorcade with explosives while another team opens fire from the back of an open van.

Sounds familiar.

[SunnyUsa]

I've just heard your theory basically repeated on msnbc by one of their experts!

If anything, this gives me the sickening feeling that the terrorists are getting ideas......

[relee]

Bruce Leshan on Channel 9 TV said the BATF says its the same sniper as Montgomery Co. The PG County police say it's a .22 and this shooting is NOT related to the Montgomery County sniper.