Sniper case transferred out of Federal courts, making way for VA.......
Saying now that the bullet that killed the man on the golf course is the same as the gun used in the killings. Evidently the snipers were in the area on the date of the murder.
Developing: Murder Linked to Snipers
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.asp?storyid=23860
In a breaking news story on 11Alive News at Noon, reporter Kevin Rowson revealed that ballistics tests link the Washington-area sniper attacks to a murder in Atlanta.
Federal and local law enforcement sources confirmed to Rowson that detectives have linked a homicide that occurred here in September to the Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle used by the sniper suspects.
The rifle, pulled from John Muhammad's Chevy Caprice after his arrest, was used to kill several Washington sniper victims, as well as a woman in Montgomery, Ala., and a beauty supply worker in Baton Rouge, La.
The Baton Rouge killing happened Sept. 23. The killing of the liquor store manager in Montgomery happened Sept. 21, less than 24 hours after the Atlanta murder.
The murder in Southwest Atlanta took place close to midnight Sept. 20 when someone shot 41-year-old liquor store employee Million Waldemarian once in the back of the head and once in the torso.
Another person in the package store on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive said he heard the shots but did not see a gunman.
The murder remained unsolved until Atlanta authorities sent ballistics tests to the D.C. Sniper Task Force, where a match was made.
Officials with the police department have made no confirmation of the report but planned an afternoon news conference.
I will update the Muhammad timeline/body count listing
tonight to include Atlanta Sept 21,
Arizona in March 2002,
Clinton MD (twice) in September
(and maybe? Jennifer Short - in Virginia - in August 2002)
Interesting name. Web search of the name shows that the guy might be an immigrant of Ethiopian origin.
Ballistic forensics evidence collected at 20 Sept shooting in Atlanta tied to .22 caliber handgun recently discovered near 21 Sept shooting in Montgomery. Suspect dropped this handgun while fleeing from policeman after the ABC liquor store shooting.