Posted on 10/27/2002 3:47:46 AM PST by Sabertooth
'If you ever leave me, I'll kill you and the kids' Rob Carson; The News Tribune Charlie Green says he's sure John Allen Muhammad is the Washington, D.C., sniper. And he says he knows why he did it. Green, 39, says he's the brother of Muhammad's second ex-wife, Mildred Green. He lived in the same Tacoma house with Muhammad's family for three years, he said, and he knows how the man's mind works.
Based on that, Green said he believes the 10 fatal shootings in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia were part of an elaborate scheme to murder Mildred and the couple's three children, who recently had moved to the Washington, D.C., area to get away from Muhammad.
"He was getting ready to take out my sister and the kids," Green contends. "All those other innocent people, they died because he was trying to cover up."
Green, a truck driver who now lives in Providence, R.I., was in Tacoma on Friday during a layover and called The News Tribune. He said he "wanted Tacoma to know first-hand why all this happened."
He said he has known Muhammad for more than 20 years, since Green was in high school in Baton Rouge and Muhammad first began seeing his sister.
Green's information could not be independently verified, and a Tacoma police spokesman said the department's investigation has not involved Mildred Green's brother. Green did, however, provide a commercial driver's license, and the Polk City Directory for 1999 lists him as a resident of 7302 S. Ainsworth Ave., where John and Mildred Muhammad lived during the 1990s.
During the interview, Green pointed out that Muhammad's killings ringed the house in Clinton, Md., where Muhammad's former wife and children were living.
Muhammad was gradually closing in on them, Green said, so that he eventually could kill them and have their deaths dismissed as random acts.
"He did it because he wanted to kill my sister, and he wanted to kill the kids," Green said. "That was his main target. He killed all those other innocent people at random right under their noses. He made it look like it was a real sniper on the loose."
When the sniper issued threats that he would start killing children, it was Muhammad, laying the groundwork for what he intended to do, Green said.
"He was stalking them the whole time," Green alleged.
He noted that the rest stop where Muhammad and his teenage companion, John Lee Malvo, were arrested is just a short drive from Mildred's house.
Muhammad had already staked out the house, Green said, and once was spotted by his 12-year-old son, John Jr. One day recently the boy came into the house and told his sister, "I saw Daddy," said Green, who said he keeps in contact with his family, including Mildred.
Not knowing Muhammad apparently had found them, Green said, his sister told the boy, "No, you didn't, honey, Daddy is nowhere around here."
Muhammad also was spotted by a neighbor, Green said, a man Muhammad tried to befriend and enlist as a jogging partner.
Back in his high school days, Green said, Muhammad was known as "Neckbone" because of the stiff way he walked.
"He would always walk with his eyes down on the ground," Green said. "He never would look up to see what was around him. He never would speak to anyone. He was a cold piece."
Muhammad had an "anger problem ever since I knew him," Green said.
"You would say, 'Hi, John, how you doing?' And he would say nothing. He felt like he was better than everybody else."
"He didn't drink, didn't use drugs," Green said. "He always stayed physically fit. He was Mr. ROTC. He would wear the ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps) suit to school. The guy was just born to be in the military."
After Muhammad got out of the army, Green said, he became such a strong follower of a radical sect of Islam that it warped his view of the world.
"If you would say the word 'Jesus' around him he'd get very offended," Green said. "One time I brought some pork chops into the house, and he just went off like he was ready to burn the whole house down."
Mildred was a convert, too, Green said, and they were strict vegetarians. They ate only cheese pizza and certain kinds of butter, and used only certain kinds of dishwashing liquid, he said.
"When they'd get tacos for the kids," he said, "they'd get them with just lettuce in them."
Muhammad was a strict disciplinarian with his children but never hit them except for an occasional swat on the bottom, Green said. When he scolded them, "The kids would just shrink up," Green said.
"He was a great father, a very strong father figure. The kids respected their dad to the utmost."
But he could not control his anger, Green said.
"He's always been that way," Green said. "He would hold it in and hold it in and then he'd explode."
One night, Green said, when Muhammad didn't know he was in the house, he heard him tell his sister: "If you ever leave me, I'll kill you and the kids."
"He just snapped when my sister said she didn't want anything to do with him anymore," Green said. "That's when he lost it."
When Green realized his sister and the children were in danger, he said, he had thoughts about killing Muhammad before he could hurt the family.
"I'm not a violent person," he said. "But I wanted to take him out myself. I should have done it, even though it would have destroyed my life. Then all those innocent people would still be alive."
Rob Carson 253-597-8693 (Published 11:30PM, October 26th, 2002)
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That said, there are still a lot of terror links that need to be checked out.
This guy was tired of killing and wanted to cash out as a bonus for stopping. I think the family would have been taken out instead of playing footsie with police if that's what he wanted to do. Of course, his plan could have morphed midstream.
And if one parent dies, the other person almost always gets custody as the surviving parent.
Malvo, on the other hand, has no such story to lean on since he is an animist and not muslim. He will undoubtedly, however, get played out as a sad case 'child' whose father abandoned him, blah, blah, blah....
Honor killings are OK for muslims. Hiding your true motives to deceive infidels is also OK. Killing infidels is OK. By his standards, John was a righteous dude.
My head is spinning...
That the shooter would go for a small school, or force a "home invasion," and try to hide behind young people in his final "blaze of glory" was being planned for, as one of the most likely ends.
This gentleman's estimate is the most observant to date.
Again, we should be impressed by the "authorities" and their overlooking him.
Those would be the same "authorities" who were patting each other on the back so much, you'd a thought they were at an awards ceremony last week ... disgusting business.
AND remember, a defense might include a homosexual victim(of MUHAMMED), psychological/emotional coercion aspect, as a mitigating factor....
Interesting, if it's true.
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