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CNN Headline News reporting shooting in Falls Church
CNN Headline News | 10/14/02 | CNN Headline News

Posted on 10/14/2002 7:00:03 PM PDT by xjcsa

CNN Headline News is reporting that a woman has been shot near a Home Depot in Falls Church, VA, and that authorities are investigating whether this is another sniper attack.

Breaking now....


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: maryland; shootings; sniper
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To: hole_n_one
Ya know......it's a good thing you signed up in 1998.
Cause it would have been sick to have initiated that screen name with that post.
How'd ya get that pic out so damn soon??????
Somebody's gonna be pi$$ed!!!!
641 posted on 10/14/2002 8:27:28 PM PDT by G Larry
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To: hole_n_one
Sadly, they don't seem to have anything.....Again......
642 posted on 10/14/2002 8:27:31 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: twntaipan
Has anyone discussed the possibilities that the get away is accomplished by looking like an emergency worker (EMS or fire dept.)or police official?

Good question.

643 posted on 10/14/2002 8:27:53 PM PDT by syriacus
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To: aristeides
Several witness' saw the van...and driver

She was at her vehicle.

Olive skin man is in the car....Chief said he has not heard that ( ????)

They are talking to the witness' now if the man got out of the van.

White female

What advise for people living in area?....." We have officer's in the area "

Have Fed. State and local P.D. assisting.

Not aware of any persuits.

Debriefing several witness'

644 posted on 10/14/2002 8:28:03 PM PDT by Neenah
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To: Ligeia
If you are in a roadblock, turn on your interior light so police can see you. If you see anyone trying to evade a chokepoint, call 911.

Umm.. I know you are trying to help and maybe I'm technologically behind the times, but I have to know: How many freepers on this thread are currently in their car, at a roadblock? :}

645 posted on 10/14/2002 8:28:03 PM PDT by bluefish
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To: Robe
Olive skinned man reported in van

Heard that... My guess is terrorism.

646 posted on 10/14/2002 8:28:14 PM PDT by Dengar01
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To: relee
There is no pursuit on going, and they don't even have a direction of travel of the perp......
647 posted on 10/14/2002 8:28:19 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Eaglefixer
I also reload and I have some 30-06 accelerators with .223 bullets. Over 4000 FPS. I think it is definitely a bolt action, maybe a 22 swift or 22-250.

I think the .223 is quite capable of doing what is being done here. Just a plain old 55-grain full metal jacket. Accounts I have read about the round indicate the tiny pill reacts strangely when it hits a human. Sometimes it will drill straight thru as has happened with several of these victims. Other times, especially if it hits bone, it will ricochet through the body, tumble, break apart. I have read accounts of someone being struck in the wrist and having the bullet follow bone, exiting through the shoulder {cringe, that sounds like it hurts!}. Since there are 10 people down and 8 of them dead and 2 critically wounded, it is very effective when it hits center-mass. They say it's an AR, could be, it's accrate enough. A single-shot like the Ruger #1 could be doing the same damage, damn these gun-grabbers. It took them a week to crawl out from under their rocks, I'm surprised they didn't start spewing their garbage day #2 of this mess.

648 posted on 10/14/2002 8:28:21 PM PDT by FlyVet
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To: HelgaHawk
would you please post something relevant?
the ordnance discussions about "bullets and guns" is very informative and helpful to LOTS of us.

You see, we care about the people being shot, the danger posed to law enforcement, the effectiveness of body armor against different types of ordnance, and that means we will discuss guns, ammunition, feet per second, penetration, fragmentation, feed and reload specifications... and so on.

Sometimes folks can LEARN information from these discussions that impact and improve their lives, safety, gun skills and law enforcement tactics.

If you don't like the subject matter on a particular thread... then you don't have to read the thread and are free completely to start your own.

If you start a "don't talk about guns here" thread... don't count on a lot of freepers to show up.
And don't ping us either... you can have a nice, "gun free zone" all on a comfy little thread all by yourself...


649 posted on 10/14/2002 8:28:24 PM PDT by Robert_Paulson2
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To: EverOnward
Please check or call local police to check the 1172* Fairfax Woods Way block for the vehicle or a sniper accessable vehicle that could be involved. I cannot give you the whole address nor thier names but am almost certain this is an avenue that needs to be immediately addressed.
650 posted on 10/14/2002 8:28:44 PM PDT by md2576
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To: caa26
There is a pattern to the time of the shootings now.

Patterns? HOw about this? The only shooting that was at the same time Muslim prayers are is this one:

8:15 p.m. Wednesday: Dean Harold Meyers, 53, of Gaithersburg, Md., killed at gas station in Manassas, Va. (Prince William County)

Prayer time for that day is 8:15 PM. The same time as Isah (Night) prayer time. But, since Muslims can combine the last 2 prayer times the actual time point may have been 6:53 PM. So, it's possible no shooting has been within 15 minutes of any Muslim prayer time for the time zone of the shootings.

Not as interesting data as ballistics info. but something else to consider.

As far as any significance regarding the name Michael. this kind of info. is interesting.

In Christian scriptures Michael's name means "who is God". Which could be taken as a question. The Muslims see Michael as something different: Muslim traditions have a beautiful, yet terrible description of the great archangel, "Wings the color of green emerald...covered with saffron hairs, each of them containing a million faces and mouths and as many tongues which, in a million dialects, implore the pardon of Allah"--and from his tears, the cherubim are formed.

Please excuse the long post.

651 posted on 10/14/2002 8:28:54 PM PDT by isthisnickcool
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To: CobaltBlue
"I observe no concrete roof overhead. Thus, she was not shot in the area close to the store with the concrete roof."

Check post 359. It's under the roof, or so it appears.
652 posted on 10/14/2002 8:29:05 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast
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To: Henk
I hadn't thought of that,,I was just thinking of sitting there looking around and seeing a white van next to my car or being a cop in the chopper wondering. But what if the van is loaded with something really bad, like a bomb. This is utterly horrifying.
653 posted on 10/14/2002 8:29:06 PM PDT by cajungirl
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To: md2576; Jim Robinson
my opinion is based precisely on your posts over the last several days.

paintball sites ad infinitum, numerology based on the astounding revelation that three points yields a triangle, yadayadayada ...

and now you've narrowed it down to one guy you know is our boy complete with address ?
then, as if that's not enough, you'd contact some anonymous fellow freeper in the area with said address rather than get hold
of the authorities who could not only deal with authentic info faster, but would also hand you a .5M check while they were at it

frankly, if i was LE, i'd get hold of your IP and schedule a little chat with you.

654 posted on 10/14/2002 8:29:07 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: CobaltBlue
On closer examination, there probably is a concrete roof, hard to say due to the orange color but the concrete stairs suggests it.
655 posted on 10/14/2002 8:29:09 PM PDT by CobaltBlue
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To: PureSolace
You are absolutely correct sir... no tin foil hat needed for this one, I thought of that DAYS and DAYS ago.

Stupidest news question of the nite "Was there evidence of a robbery?" Sheesh

656 posted on 10/14/2002 8:29:15 PM PDT by No_Doll_i
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To: nicmarlo
Chief also said: "he's not aware of any high speed pursuits."

Remember Florida a few weeks back. The press got almost every detail wrong at first.

657 posted on 10/14/2002 8:29:15 PM PDT by CharacterCounts
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To: Dengar01; phasma proeliator
Olive skin or not, people are scared to pump gas. Reckon that defines terrorism in my book.
658 posted on 10/14/2002 8:29:24 PM PDT by da_toolman
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To: PureSolace
Another possability is that the guy is inside the back of the truck or on top lying down while the truck is moving or stopped at a light he could knock off a round and no one would be the wiser for it.

Inside the back of the truck he could shoot fairly hidden away but he would have to shoot with the idea of knowing that he could be seen at anytime from behind

This gal was shot from a higher position because their saying she was down inside the garage so he may have been on top of a truck stopped at a location ripe fopr fire and the his partner pulls off as if nothing happend

just my mind ramblings

659 posted on 10/14/2002 8:29:30 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
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To: kristinn
Lookout for cream colored Astro van with right rear tail light out.

I wonder if this van was a white one last week and was painted cream over the weekend.

660 posted on 10/14/2002 8:29:32 PM PDT by syriacus
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