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Sniper has D.C. feeling like the hunted 10/13/2002 By JIM MORRIS / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - The mundane task of pumping gas has suddenly become an act of daring, an exercise in evasion. No longer does one stand idly, nozzle in hand, while the tank fills. The 10 sniper shootings since Oct. 2 - four at gas stations - have changed all that. He, or they, could be lurking in the woods, preparing to fell yet another self-service customer. Eight people have been gunned down; two wounded. Now the prudent patron bursts from the driver's seat, rams...

Tarot card report angers police in sniper manhunt Officials unsure if latest slaying at gas station is related to other killings 10/10/2002 Associated Press As police investigated another fatal shooting in the Washington area Wednesday night, investigators assailed media reports about a note that a sniper apparently left for police, saying the disclosure may have jeopardized their chance to communicate with the man terrorizing the region. Police sources who have read a tarot "death" card left by the assailant after he shot a 13-year-old boy Monday outside a Bowie, Md., school, said Wednesday that in addition to an apparent...