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| Life in Shooterland... Part deux... |
| 2002-10-23 |
| 4.15 p.m. (EST) Phone tip sez there's a story that someone in a white box truck pointed a gun at a school bus in I-270, running from Washington to Frederick, MD. That part of 270's shut down — yes, it is rush hour... 7.30 p.m. update... FBI is executing search warrants in several places across the country. FoxNews showed footage of a search in Tacoma, Washington — which is not the same as Takoma Park, in Monkey County — where the Feds were reportedly looking for a body in the backyard. The news said it was a consensual search, conducted with metal detectors and chainsaws... Tacoma news conference in 15 minutes... Picking up shell casings, took a tree stump away, presumably used as a target... Interested in a former Fort Lewis soldier... News conference was put off... If they have anything to tell us, they will... I'm confused... But interested... The body in the backyard was a rumor, nothing to it... 8.00 p.m. Montgomery County sez they don't expect any arrests to come from this... Other search warrants to be executed in other places... The stump will be flown to Rockville, to the ATF ballistics lab... Chief Moose is expected to have something to say tonite... The FBI brief in Tacoma was singularly uninformative... FoxNews interviewed one of the neighbors, whose contribution seemed to be how funny his haircut was... I think he said something, but I was so busy laughing at him I didn't hear it. 9 p.m. The house is a former home of a former Fort Lewis soldier. Feds have asked for cooperation from Fort Lewis brass... Looking into Vietnam-era lore on weapons, sniping, and tarot cards... The fellow's described as an American of Hispanic extraction... Local stations are reporting that's who the sniper is... Brian Wilson's copy is up on FoxNews.com... Sheppard Smith mentioned they're now talking about plural shooters, and that the coppers are going to be excavating someplace in Alabama... Looks like it might be breaking... 9.45 p.m. Trying to serve warrants in Alabama, more in Tacoma, and more in greater Washington area... Got another car to look for, too, a Chevy Caprice, maybe with Jersey plates... There's a list of suspects... Press conference to come at 10.45 with Chief Moose... Search warrant being served in Marion, Alabama, near Montgomery... 10.45 p.m. FoxNews says the Alabama location is known as a militia groups training area... A place called "Campground Zero"... Lee Malvo (Malveaux?) and John Mohammad, aka John Allen Williams, are the suspects... Both are tied to blue or burgundy Chevy Caprice, New Jersey license number NDA-21Z... Described as "persons of interest"... One address of John Mohammad is in Clinton, Maryland. Previous residence was in Washington — Tacoma, I'd guess. Clinton is in Prince George's County... John Mohammad's around 42 years old, Malvo is in his 20s... Authorities seem to think Mohammad's of more interest than Malvo... Camp Zero's a legit operation, located south of Fort Rucker... Seems like there is a turban involved, of some sort... 11.15 p.m. Willams/Mohammad was stationed at Fort Lewis, in an engineer unit, lived near but not in the house that was searched, around 1995... Malvo is a 17-year-old Jamaican, may be Mohammad's stepson... Also looking for a stolen white Chevy Celebrity... considered armed and dangerous... It's a family affair... 11.45 p.m. Chief Moose: Federal arrest warrant's been issued for Mohammad... Not related to the shootings being investigated... Believed to have information pertaining... Should be considered armed and dangerous... Do not assume that Mohammad is involved in the shootings. 7.45 a.m. 10-24-02 Caught the guys sleeping in the car, off I-70. Rumor has it the gun's in the car... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |