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Overnight news: Police report someone was shot in the head at a gas station last night in Manassas, Virginia and it could be related to the sniper attacks. Expect more news this morning.
1 posted on 10/10/2002 2:15:12 AM PDT by Peach
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The Court TV website has a timeline for the shootings.

It was appear that the earliest in the morning was the third shooting, 7:41 AM, in Montgomery County, MD (Oct 3, lawnmower). The latest in the morning was the sixth, 9:58 AM, also Montgomery County (Oct 3, gas station).

The earliest in the afternoon was the eighth, 2:30 PM, in Fredericksburg, VA (Oct 4, parking lot), next earliest was the first shooting, 5:20 PM, in Montgomery County (Oct 2, windows of art supply store, nobody hurt), and the latest in the evening was the seventh, 9:15 PM, in DC (Oct 3, sidewalk).

Apparently the sniper keeps regular hours and might work part-time (or full-time but in a job that allows him to travel) but is occupied in the middle of the day (is the 2:20 shooting a fluke, a day he called in sick, etc.?).

533 posted on 10/10/2002 11:42:23 AM PDT by DonQ
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Last night's Manassas shooting positively was the same rifle. The bullet was intact inside the victim's skull - which, considering it was supposed to be a fairly powerful bullet, makes me think that maybe the killer deliberately took some powder out of the cartridge to make sure that the bullet could be found intact. You'd figure a serial killer with obvious gun skill would have an assortment of weapons - and a sensible killer would dump a weapon that can be connected to a murder, so I suspect this guy (or girl) is deliberately persisting with this one rifle, and making down-tuning the bullets, to make sure the world knows that one person is responsible for all the killings, no copycats.

A local radio station started calling him the One Shot Sniper, so now he may have a nickname.

Oddly enough, two of his shootings were in shopping centers with Michael's Crafts (an art supply chain) and the one in Manassas was a gas station adjacent to a shopping center with a Michael's. There aren't but ten or so Michael's stores in the area (it's not nearly as ubiquitous as, say, CVS pharmacies). It appears that the sniper knows the immediate neighborhoods of his shootings - at least he knows how to zip onto a major highway in short order. Could it be that he is or was a deliveryman for Michael's or for a supplier for Michael's, and thereby got to know the streets around each Michael's store??

Manassas, by the way, is a fairly long drive - almost an hour - from Montgomery County, MD, and most residents of Montgomery have never been there, so this guy is no simple commuter ... he's familiar with fairly long routes.

664 posted on 10/10/2002 7:04:36 PM PDT by DonQ
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