Beltway Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary-Monday, Oct. 21, 2002

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[mewzilla]

I hope if we did a deal, if this is the perp, it's a deal we can live with.

[corlorde]

All the media idiots are already saying "This may be the end of the case"...

How can they say that?


I'm glad I don't own a "white van"..

[Howlin]

CRAP!

[Peach]

Local reporting is the best typically. Suspect not white, not black. Keep the news coming.

[alisasny]

PLYMOUTH VOYAGER WITH TEMPORARY TAGS

[iceskater]

I thought they did but they've been making a lot of changes lately. I listen live so I've never really checked the streaming capabilities.

[Quilla]

Are you serious?

[mhking]

Robert Baker, a 30 year old white male affiliated with a Virginia militia group and lifetime NRA member

Of course those last two qualifiers are added to the description in order to villify the right.

[cricket]

"If he thinks he is God then he can be that stupid"

good point. . .

[LisaFab]

I guess it's still called a luggage rack. I've never been too sure what a ladder rack is. CNN showing clear shot of van and phone. Definitely a standard luggage rack.

[Peach]

Are you kidding? A white guy? Local reporting said suspect not white and not black.

[Howlin]

Could he be THIS dumb???

[mystery-ak]

NRA member...here we go!

[areafiftyone]

Sniper team reportedly detains man

A man reportedly was in police custody Monday after being surrounded at a Virginia gas station by a SWAT team working with the sniper task force. The development came after police had urged the person who left a message at a shooting scene Saturday to contact them.

POLICE SURROUNDED a white van at the Richmond, Va., gas station and detained a man sitting inside, NBC affiliate WWBT-TV reported. The van has a roof rack but does not fully match the descriptions of white utility vans issued by the sniper task force. The van at the gas station has windows all around, while the utility vans had no side windows.

Police had scheduled a news conference shortly. Late Sunday, Charles Moose, the sniper task force coordinator and police chief of Montgomery County, Md., read a statement that seemed to speak directly to the unknown party about the shooting Saturday at an Ashland, Va., restaurant called the Ponderosa Steakhouse.

“To the person who left us a message at the Ponderosa last night: You gave us a telephone number. We do want to talk to you. Call us at the number you provided. Thank you.” With that, Moose left the podium.

An investigator who read the lengthy message told NBC’s David Bloom that the contents indicate “this could be a very difficult time we are about to go through.”

Moose asked the media to carry the message clearly and often, but did not elaborate. It was not clear how or where the message was left.

Investigation sources told NBC News that investigators believe the letter came from the Washington area sniper, opening what may be a first round of communication.

The message was found in woods behind the Ponderosa, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Monday, quoting law enforcement sources it did not name. The report also said police have found more than one tarot card during the investigation. Only one tarot card had been reported until now, having been found near the shooting of a student at a Bowie, Md., school.

News of the message came as authorities continued to comb the woods and parking lot behind the steakhouse, trying to find evidence that may link the shooting there to the sniper, who has taken nine lives and wounded two other people. Previously, the longest distance from Washington that the sniper had struck was Spotsylvania County, about 50 miles south of the nation’s capital. Ashland is about 85 miles south of Washington

[iceskater]

Van being taken away by police

[FootBall]

MiniVan doesn't look the Graphics of vehicles given to public. Has Side windows and a luggage rack and is a dodge caravan. Looks like a *FAMILY VAN*.

[mewzilla]

Okay, here's a scary thought. Could they have done/gotten/achieved what they wanted, this guy turns himself in and that's the cue for something else to start?

[areafiftyone]

Maybe he WANTS to get caught!!! Maybe this is the only way he can finally get his fame.

[Howlin]

Exactly!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Is this a joke? Sh*t, they are going to be locking up the guns now and using the Constitution for toilet paper. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and all fascist gun control freaks cruising to victory.... ;-(