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.
The fact that this man who must have traveled cross-country to the Washington DC area for some reason (the move of more than three thousand miles was not done as the result of a random whim) … combined with the fact that the killings seemed to ‘ring’ his ex wife’s Clinton, MD home …. is semi-compelling evidence that the deaths of the ten innocents may well have been simply used to set the stage for Mildred Green’s also (supposedly random, but actually strategically calculated) death.
It’s the theory that he planned to also target his three children that doesn’t sit well with me, for two reasons:
(1) There was a bitter custody battle over those children, and, after Mildred Green was awarded custody, Muhammed kidnapped them and took them out of the country. (Although, considering this man’s demented nature, I suppose that is not necessarily proof of a burning desire to have them with him. It could also simply have been proof of a burning desire to sadistically deprive her of them.)
(2) The killing of four people at one time (and all of them members of the same family) would not at all have fit the M.O. of the sniper. Muhammed, of all people, must have been well aware of that. If he intended to eventually target his family, he would have planned the 'set-up' to also include multiple simultaeous killings.
So, it seems that, if Green’s accusations are at all plausible (and they do seem to be, to a degree), I would dispute only the aspect that the three children were intended to be eventual victims. If indeed Mildred Green was the actual target, I believe she was the lone one – after which Muhammed might either have gained custody of his children once again (this time legally), or he may have simply been satisfied with doing away with the woman for whom he apparently harbored such hatred, and then allowed the children to be placed elsewhere, because their role as pawns in a game of vengeance had been played out.
Whatever his motivation was (this obscene plan, or another), it’s just a tragedy that thirteen innocents had to find themselves in his crosshairs.