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2002-10-04 Home Front

Monkey County coppers looking for random killer...

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-10-04 04:08 pm|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Two men" is hardly the type of identification that the public needs to provide its information role in this type of incident. Perhaps, there is some "profiling" sensitivity here, that is not advancing public safety.

Posted by Allah the Dog Faced God 2002-10-04 19:31:26|| 2002-10-04 19:31:26|| Front Page Top

#2 I live in Manassas and work in Tyson's Corner, and I can tell you that I've been looking askance at white "box trucks" today. This is exhausting and enervating, because as the Post pointed out today, there are just so damn many of them - they're all over the place doing deliveries and whatnot every day. The police certainly were stopping a lot of them yesterday, but given the paucity of the evidence they had at that point, I don't really see what else they could have done.

I'm suspicious about the Charlot shooting myself, because, looking at the map, the location (which, by the way, was only a block from the MD/Montgomery County state line on Georgia Avenue, next to Silver Spring) is pretty much in a rough line with the other locations of the murders. They did recover bullet fragments from the old fellow's body, so if they were able to find any bullets or bullet fragments from the other killings, we might be able to get some more data soon. For that matter, Chief Moose also released some very detailed data about that truck in the press conference which might be helpful - _if_ the truck hasn't been abandoned because the killer or killers have caught on that their vehicle is being searched for by every boy and girl in blue within 50 miles of the District.

I think the Fredericksburg shooting (which, incidentially and most thankfully, the woman who was the victim appears to be surviving) is more of a copycat thing, because the vehicle involved was very different and the weapon appears not to have been the high-powered rifle involved in the MD killings.

BTW, for what it's worth, at least one other blogger is speculating that the first victim, James Martin, was the intended target, and the others were shot to throw police off the track. Thing is, from what little I know - Mr. Martin worked for NOAA as some sort of analyst - I have no idea why _he_ would be the target of a killer, either.

Posted by Joe 2002-10-04 20:14:35|| 2002-10-04 20:14:35|| Front Page Top

#3 As a follow-up, http://www.koenighaus.net/indepundit/archives/001122.html#001122 has a very thorough running update on the case.

I might note, also, replying to Allah the Dog Faced God, that maybe the police _don't_ yet know the description of the shooters. It was only in one case so far that witnesses managed to get a good look at the famous white box truck, after all, and they might well not have been able to see the occupants clearly enough to get a good ID.

Posted by Joe 2002-10-04 20:18:29|| 2002-10-04 20:18:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Charlot case: same gun, confirmed.

They seem to think the case of the woman shot in Virginia may also be related. We'll see.

Posted by Kathy K 2002-10-05 08:02:48|| [site-essential.com] 2002-10-05 08:02:48|| Front Page Top

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