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Hanover County is located in the east-central Piedmont and Coastal Plain areas of Virginia, between the Chickahominy and Pamunkey Rivers. It is approximately 90 miles south of Washington, D.C. and 12 miles north of Richmond. It is a part of the greater Richmond metropolitan area. The County land area is 471 square miles and is bordered by the Counties of Caroline, King William, New Kent, Henrico, Goochland, Spotsylvania and Louisa. There is one incorporated town in the County, which is the Town of Ashland.

Howlin,
Your description of Hanover County, Virginia (post #13) is very good.

The total area has about about 1 million population w/suburbs. About 45 minutes south of the last shooting.

Hanover is rural (north and west end) and suburban (south and east). It's a large county.
This area is similar in makeup to the outer DC suburbs (Prince William, Manassas and Spottslyvania).

In the past 2 weeks, because of the sniper and the proximity to the nearest shooting, Richmond has been under the same precautions as Northern Virginia, (cancelled school activities, etc.)

Most of us don't get gas anywhere near the interstate.

A 60 year old man was shot once. Not fatal.
Parking lot of Ponderosa Restaurant.

Press conference now....
Victim was walking to his car from the restaurant.
Shot in the stomach from an unknown distance and an unknown direction.

Being treated as a sniper attact (pending other info).