Maryland Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary

Fox News, CNN | October 10, 2002 | Fox News, CNN, Press Releases

[Peach]

To avoid multiple vanity threads regarding any news that comes from press conferences, let's keep a live commentary thread going again today.

[ET(end tyranny)]

Early on, I was concerned about terrorists. But not now. Not these shootings.

[livius]

I am surprised that no one has mentioned the Zebra killings in San Francisco in the 1970s. I was living there at the time, and it was quite frightening, because random attacks were being carried out, usually from a car, by a group of black men. At least 17 people (women, men, and old people, all of them white) were killed by them over a 2 year period. The case was finally solved a few years later when one of them confessed and named the others. They turned out to be a Black Muslim group who referred to themselves as the Death Angels. I think several of them were supposed to be released from prison in 2002 - that is, this year.

[stuartcr]

Knowing how governments are, and always have been, I am, sadly, at the point that I believe no one that is not my immediate family, especially if there is any possiblity of ulterior motives. I think this is valid nowadays, and I don't believe I'm alone in this thinking. Consequently, it should be of no surprise that we don't believe anything we hear from the media. I don't think we will ever know the truth. All we can hope for is that what will be done, will be in the best interest of the majority, and that individually, we should hope to be in that majority.

[walkingdead]

Hey, I want the same as you. My brother lives in MD. I just hope no one overlooks something because they're stuck on the homegrown thing thats all.

You know, "well it couldn't be him because he's a Muslim. And if we do ask him any questions, we could lose our jobs.."

[spokeshave]

But what about the guy shot in similar circumstances 2 weeks before while closing up a liquor store with his bos...I think on Sept 14 neaby,

It was on Fox twice yesterday....also he was interviewed again by the feds...?

[ET(end tyranny)]

I made a post yesterday that has since become MIA. Without a trace, too! LOL So, check your mail!

[Sacajaweau]

You're right, it was a dealership. He provided landscape services for them.

Did he provide the same for any of the other sites is my question??

Sac

[antivenom]

I know that...BUT if his primary reason for shooting people is to get a HIGH Dead Count...he wouldn't be using a "Varmit Rifle" and .223...it is NOT a High Powered Rifle...it is HIGH VELOCITY Ammo...

I'll bet when this nut is found, he will have a SCOPE on this rifle that is worth MORE than the gun.

The primary piece of equipment in this guys hands he treasures more is the SCOPE it allows him to have an "Eye of G-d"...and the rifle is secondary...it is only the means to deliver his "calling card".

[stuartcr]

I think, with a round as popular as the .223, and the fact that it pretty much disintegrates at impact, ballistics could probably figure out the caliber, but to get any rifling off of it, would be very difficult. Besides, new, mass produced, military weapons, have pretty much the same signature.

[ET(end tyranny)]

check your mail

[relee]

How does a truck get hit with bird shot in city limits?

The delivery truck was on a rural-like bypass road that goes around the rapidly growing suburban area around Manassas. It is a also a relatively new (2 yrs. old) road. Wednesday was opening day of duck season in that part of Virginia. It also was the opening day of the second dove season.

[ET(end tyranny)]

Sept 14th one might be part of these. The fact that it dropped off the front page so fast may be why there were 5 in day to GET attention and keep it.

[Shooter 2.5]

Until I see a shred of evidence that tells me this is a terrorist group, I won't believe it. If it was a group, they would have more than one firearm. They would act as a group where more people would be killed at the same time. So far, all the evidence points to one or two people.
Hoping, wishing or thinking it's a terrorist group doesn't make it so.

[aristeides]

They turned out to be a Black Muslim group who referred to themselves as the Death Angels. I think several of them were supposed to be released from prison in 2002 - that is, this year.

If any were released, I wonder where they are now. (Although the Haitian killed on Georgia Ave. last Thursday was black, and I suspect the 13-year-old boy in Bowie also is.)

[ET(end tyranny)]

If dead doesn't matter then why are there 7 dead? And only 3 survivors? Why not just maim?

[aristeides]

Yes, 5 in a day was incredibly dangerous for the shooter(s), considering how close the shootings were to one another. There had to be some reason for them to take that risk.

Since then, there has never been more than one in a day.

[aristeides]

Was the name of the auto dealership ever released? (I'm wondering if the name of the dealership might have some significance.)

[browardchad]

I don’t see an environmental connection to the post office (or the bench ;o), but here’s something that might send a PETA/ELF whacko over the edge:

From the Washington Post:

Sarah Ramos, 34, died moments after she got off a bus on Connecticut Avenue at the Leisure World Shopping Center and sat on a bench in front of the Crisp & Juicy restaurant to read. Family and friends declined to be interviewed, and police were unable to provide any details of her life.

From digitalcity.com, Washington Restaurant Guide:

Not only is the chicken wonderful, Crisp and Juicy makes one of the best steak sandwiches (their Carnita) anywhere.

The bullet passed through Ramos, into the restaurant window.

[Darnright]

"In that pic, there is another man approaching victim. Patches on shirt of man approaching victim looks like cop or gas station attendant, although when was the last time we saw a gas station attendant outside helping customers?"

Last time I saw an actual service station, I was at a Sunoco. Wish we still had the brand around these parts.