[Peach]

Overnight news: 37-year old man survived surgery, bullet remains in his body until he is stable enough for further surgery. 10:00 a.m. press conference scheduled.

[blam]

Thanks for the new thread. Not much new since last night.

[Peach]

Ping, Prayer Thread here

[Momaw Nadon]

Is it time to bring in psychics to solve the DC area sniper case?

[mystery-ak]

....moving over hear bump

[Lessismore]

How far does the sniper have to go before switching to his government-issued, official vehicle?

[TC Rider]

Overnight news: 37-year old man survived surgery, bullet remains in his body until he is stable enough for further surgery. 10:00 a.m. press conference scheduled.

I heard on CNN and MSNBC this morning that fragments may not be recovered. Also, so far, only fragments have been recovered.

This ties in with early reports that he's using somoe kind of frangible ammo. If true, this makes the 'ballistic fingerprinting' arguments mute.

I hope Wayne LaPierre makes a decent argument this morning. More often than not, I feel most Freepers could better defend our rights.

[Lion's Cub]

I've been thinking about that bullet, Peach.

I'd bet there's a good chance they have ID'd it. All the bullets have been fragmenting. Just because they couldn't get all the fragments, or even the largest fragment, doesn't mean they weren't able to get any fragment large enough to ID.

OTOH, if this is another cell, they could be using different ammunition--as well as a different gun.

The other thing that strikes me about this is that the victim was not stationary. He and his wife were walking to the car. He was moving--though he was probably walking right into the shooter.

[1234]

when this newest shooting was first reported, Sat. nite, 'EVERYBODY' WAS SAYIN VICTIM WAS 60 YEARS OLD-
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

[nicmarlo]

Did anybody else hear this a.m., someone on FOX (I think a ret. police or something) say: "If the killer really wanted to throw a loop for the police is if he'd change the type of weapon he uses." I thought to myself, great, let's HELP THE SNIPER. We all know he's watching t.v. He's getting police tips to help him do "better." These people should shut up.

[johnny7]

This is a team of perps and they do not work for a living.

They spend their time scoping out a new killing field, checking police patrols and taking notes.

It could be just 3 dudes who actually do the job but they have support behind them.

No crazy kids could pull this off. No nut-job could avoid screwing up for so long.

The cops are clueless and over-matched. They can only call for an ambulance and hold a press conference.

[whenigettime]

bump for later

[AntiDemocrat]

Moose...are you guys getting close?? Or not?

[MinuteGal]

If this isn't a hoaxer, and it IS the sniper, it sounds like a home-grown rather than Al Qaida. Wonder if the voice had an accent.

Leni

[whenigettime]

sarcasm on/ Hey, Salt Lake City is going to have a violence free week (as reported by a news station here), I guess everyone will succumb to swaying and singing and handholding (barf) and ALL bad guys will stop being bad /sarcasm off