US sniper victim No 18 (ANOTHER DC SNIPER VICTIM?)

The Sun ^ | November 5, 2002 | Brian Flynn

[MadIvan]

THE laptop computer found in the Washington snipers’ car was last night feared to belong to an EIGHTEENTH victim.

The owner is believed to be a restaurant boss shot a month before John Williams, 41, and Lee Malvo, 17, launched their killing spree.

Victim Paul LaRuffa, 55, was blasted six times at close range.

He was left fighting for life, but amazingly survived the ambush outside his diner in Clinton, Baltimore.

The gunmen nicked his Sony laptop — the same make as one discovered in the blue sedan the thriller killers used for their reign of terror around America’s capital.

Paul was yesterday waiting for police to confirm if the computer was his. He shuddered: “It’s frustrating. I wish somebody would tell me, ‘Yes, it’s yours’ or, ‘No, it’s not yours’.”

He was shot close to where Williams’ ex-wife Mildred lives with their three children. The gun was the same calibre as one used by the snipers.

In 22 days they murdered ten and wounded three in Washington, its suburbs and surrounding areas.

Police have already linked at least four other shootings. Williams and Malvo face the death penalty.

[MadIvan]

I haven't seen anything about this posted on here, so I thought it might be interesting to you.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Pretty wild!

[Cicero]

More explanations of where they got their money and stuff. It looks more and more to me that these guys were free-lancers, joining the Islamic crusade on their own hook. Which is not to say that they weren't influenced by Black Muslims, Muslim recruiters, and the like. But it looks like a case of "black rage" and entitlement turning to Islam as a congenial sort of religion to express these feelings.

That is, of course, a great danger here, in addition to the more organized movements. Chuck Colson has written about the dangers of Muslim agents recruiting angry blacks in prison. I trust they are thinking twice now about hiring Muslim prison chaplains.

[Thisiswhoweare]

I remember hearing the report when the Synagoge (sp?) was "shot up" in WA, one of the missing items was a laptop computer. Guess they hawked it at a pawn shop for money.
Or gave it to their contact to keep in touch.

[JulieRNR21]

Victim Paul LaRuffa, 55, was blasted six times at close range. He was left fighting for life, but amazingly survived the ambush outside his diner in Clinton, Baltimore.

A miracle this man survived....God Bless Him!

[Moosilauke]

A racist article. The man's last name is Muhammad. Why do they insist on referring to him by his slave name?

[VOA]

Muslim Is The Religion Of Peace, Inc.

As I tell my stunned, open-mouthed liberal colleagues, I have started to believe in the
real power of Islam.
I ask them (rhetorically), what other religion could create serial killers out of
two people who are not:
male, white, Southern, and poorly educated?

That there Islam is some powerful religion, yessiree.

[Future Useless Eater]

Two other little-reported details...

• September 15 - Clinton MD, Looks like our shooters might have done yet another robbery shooting... similar M.O. Wait for a small business to close, and kill or attempt to kill the owner taking his cash to the bank. This was Brandywine Liquors. The victim lived because the gun was a small caliber handgun. Probably the .22 handgun found in Montgomery AL after the Sept 21 shooting.
• A WEEK before they bought the sniper-mobile (blue Chevrolet Caprice) the pair was 3000 miles away, in Tacoma Washington, shopping for a car with a REALLY BIG TRUNK.

  late august 2002 - Tacoma, Wash. - Late THIS summer, just before school started, John Muhammad and Lee Malvo showed up at Todd Paulson's auto repair shop in Tacoma, Wash., Muhammad wanted to buy a certain 1965 white Lincoln Continental in good condition. Muhammad seemed interested in only one thing. "He wanted to know how big the trunk was" For three days, Muhammad and Malvo dropped by but, at $2,500, finally concluded the car was out of reach. Within days, they would choose a car on the other side of the country for $250 and convert its big trunk into a sniper's lair.

[Future Useless Eater]

It seems pretty obvious that Maryland has declared a news blackout until the election is over.

Just the opposite of what they would have done if shooters were AWG (Angry White Guys)

[FreedomPoster]

This guy was just on FNC on Greta's shown, not 10 minutes ago. He's asked if it was his laptop, hasn't gotten a straight answer is what I heard.

[FreedomPoster]

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[alaskanfan]

So how many bullets do they have from this bushmaster so far?

Even if all they have are fragments, it seems the miracle of ballistic fingerprinting could tie all of these shooting together. < /sarcasm >

Clearing up cases?

[cherry]

you see, I want to know about that 22 cal. gun.....

the Short family was executed by a 22....that was in Virginia....

there was also another freak incident where two adults...man and woman...were gunned down on a roadside somewhere in Virginia.....that happened a little after the Short murders....but I will be damned if I know where to reaserch tht.....it seems to have dissappeared off the radar.....

[rllngrk33]

Clinton MD, Looks like our shooters might have done yet another robbery shooting... similar M.O. Wait for a small business to close, and kill or attempt to kill the owner taking his cash to the bank. This was Brandywine Liquors.

This is too close to home for me.

Can anyone tell me where Brandywine Liquors is? Is it the the store at Md. Route 5 and Brandywine Rd., the one in the shopping center off Md. Route 5 and Woodyard Rd., or B.K Miller's in Clinton? If it's any of these, I might just have to keep some loaded magazines handy.

[rllngrk33]

Clinton MD, Looks like our shooters might have done yet another robbery shooting... similar M.O. Wait for a small business to close, and kill or attempt to kill the owner taking his cash to the bank. This was Brandywine Liquors.

I just found out from my wife that the victim is the owner of a restaurant in Clinton that I've been buying carry out from for the last 15 years.

She saw the interview on FOX. I remember hearing that there had been a shooting at his place some time in September. I went in to order about a week after the shooting and saw his hand in a strange looking cast.

[countess]

I saw a photo of the front of the liquor store on t.v. earlier. It didn't look like B.K. Millers. It was a smaller place that I've never noticed before.

Too close to home for me, too.

[rllngrk33]

It was a smaller place that I've never noticed before.

It's on Stuart Lane off of Woodyard Road. Behind the Shell Station and McDonalds and across from the C13 MetroBus Stop.

[SicTransitGloriaMundi]

Are the media not able to tell the difference between a .22LR and a .223Rem? Or was this guy really shot six times at close range with an AR-15, and back at work the next week?

[Plutarch]

It is amazing how fast this story has vanished after it was discovered the perps don't fit a comfortable media template.