NEWSFLASH: Another shooting, approx. 9 AM, this time near Fredericksburg

The Free Lance-Star ^ | now | Jim Lakely

[seamus]

I work in a newsroom in Fredericksburg, and they heard on the police scanner that a person has been shot at a gas station at "Four Mile Fork" which is a neighborhood just south of the City of Fredericksburg.

No details yet, but I wanted to let y'all know -- and keep up the tradition of FReepers getting news first.

Pray for the victim, and pray that this is a random shooting, and that this monster's terror has not widened yet again.

[js1138]

Are you asking about Calvin and Hobbes, or the duplicator?

Calvin was a very popular comic strip about six or eight year-old boy with a vivid imagination. He built a duplicator out of a cardboard box, and out stepped a number of evil clones, that proceeded to get the real Calvin into trouble. You had to be there.

[rintense]

FOX also reporting this.

[Kip Lange]

Breaking on Fox

[Squantos]

OK I'll yeild to your expertise in the matter. I was EOD that did a little time clearing the guns on such in training at Herby Field but never peeked at the sensor "cave" while doing so. (I understood the threat of getting shot just for trying)

Stay Safe and thanks for the education.....

[abner]

There was no victim this morning either. Not for a while anyway.

[SarahW]

Its pretty rank. But its one of those pile-on fictions where multiple writers contribute and build on the lousy writing of others. I wonder which one wrote the Tarot card bit.

[valleygal]

Just breaking on Fox, possible shots fired near Tasker elementary in Bowie, generic phone call said they heard gun shot sounds and are investigating....that's it

[rintense]

I loved Calvin's transmogrifer.

[tractorman]

That's it! Time to buy more ammo!

[relee]

Let's hope there's no victim here at all.

[carton253]

I was there - it was very funny!

[aj1]

Black - White pattern being established?

Next - White?
Today - Black
Wed. - White
Mon. - Black
Friday - White Woman (?)(let me know if she was white)
Thur. - Black (last victim on rampage that day in DC)
Thur. - (initial killing spree with little time to think)

Seems like there is a Black-White pattern of killing being
established (with time to think)after the SPREE killing on Thursday in which he selected targets as quickly as possible.

The initial SPREE killings was made so he could get Media and police attention quickly. Now that he has the attention he can be selective with time and place.

I also think this killer *could* be a video gamer in which
you shoot people at distance for the thrill of it and don't need face to face satisfaction like many serial killers.

[SarahW]

They need to learn how to pull the cached versions too!

[Shooter 2.5]

I have pecan trees and I'm replacing the roof on my patio and I was wondering if I should get a metal roof.

Maybe not.

[mystery-ak]

I hope it's not a trap...phoney call to divert police.

[MJemison]

Perhaps it takes a sniper to kill a sniper. In the Carlos Hathcock way.

[AmericanInTokyo]

If that is the case (regarding another shooting attributable to snipers and not the normal random shootings in the DC area), then we are looking at a multiple suspect conspiracy set in multiple locations throughout the region.

Let's follow closely.

If this were the case (and there is already the police description out looking for TWO MEN in a vehicle), we'd be fools to think anymore that this is not terrorism directed not at the citizens of Virginia, DC and Maryland, but against all of us in the United States.

[Budge]

Calvin had a box that he had labled "Transmorgrifer" in which he could duplicate anything, includung himself.

[SarahW]

I had one of those when I was a kid.

[Kip Lange]

I also think this killer *could* be a video gamer in which you shoot people at distance for the thrill of it and don't need face to face satisfaction like many serial killers.

Oh Lord, are you going to resurrect the "watch out for Dungeons & Dragons!" debate? ;-)

--KL