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| Wife Killer Was US Army Sniper |
| 2007-07-17 |
| Police on Tuesday found the black Dodge pickup truck of a sniper suspected in the fatal shooting of his wife as she sang on stage in a Wyoming restaurant. Authorities found the vehicle in a canyon near Laramie after a tip from a caller, who also claimed to have spotted David Munis, 36, about 45 miles west of where his wife, Robin Munis, was shot dead as she sang with her band at the Old Chicago restaurant. "He is our sole suspect right now," Cheyenne Police Capt. Jeff Schulz told FOX News. Schulz said police had not yet searched the vehicle, which had National Guard license plates, but sources told FOX News that investigators had found an empty handgun case and that two canteens were missing from the truck. A Blackhawk helicopter was aiding the ground search for David Munis, who was believed to be on foot. Lead singer Ty Warner, who was standing next to Robin Munis as a bullet shattered the eatery's glass door and struck her in the head as she performed on stage Saturday, recalled the shooting. “I heard a pop … and there was a puff of smoke," said the Ty and the Twisters bandmate, adding that he thought a spilled drink on the electrical equipment had caused the smoke before realizing Robin Munis had been shot. Warner said Munis, 40, who recently had moved out of her home with her four children during the estrangement process, continued to balance her responsibilities to her family and job as a policy analyst and to the band. "She was a consummate professional," he said. Police said that after searching his home, they assumed David Munis had at least one high-powered rifle with him. Schulz has said the search also turned up evidence connecting Munis to the shooting, though he did not elaborate. Munis has been a member of the Wyoming Army National Guard since 2003, previously in the U.S. Army and was a 2001 graduate of the Army Sniper School at Ft. Benning, Ga., according to the National Guard. "Apprehending a man with that kind of sniper skill and the weaponry he has available to him is an extremely dangerous type of proposition," Schulz said Monday. Police said Monday they were securing an arrest warrant David Munis charging him with homicide. Schulz said investigators were speaking to David Munis' relatives in Montana and a friend at an Army base in Kentucky with whom he had been in contact. Authorities didn't specify which base, but the Munises had lived within a few miles of Fort Campbell, Ky. Neighbors Laura and Eddie Lopez said they didn't see any violence between the Munises, who they said were a very friendly couple. Between them, the Munises had four children, ages 19, 17, 13 and 5. There was just a live report on FOX that the police are terrified of this guy, because he was able to conceal, snipe, and escape, and they have no effective way of stopping him if he wants to go on a spree. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #11 A followup from the AP says that the man has died from his wounds. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2007-07-17 23:47 |
| #10 Sharpshooter Suspected in Wyoming Wife's Murder Taken to Hospital from Fox CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A man suspected of fatally shooting his estranged wife as she sang at a bar has been taken to a hospital with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, according to a Cheyenne police captain. |
| Posted by: Sherry 2007-07-17 22:23 |
| #9 Maybe they should bring in Lon Horiuchi. But then, he might not like an even match. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-07-17 17:36 |
| #8 It's a National Guard helo. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-07-17 17:03 |
| #7 Please note that a Blackhawk helicopter is being used to search for him. I doubt that it is a civilian model. They are also probably using Lantern IR search to find him. Unless he had his stuff together before he whacked his wife, he will not have a tremendous advantage. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-07-17 16:56 |
| #6 Right lotp, except when of course, its something the 'liberals' approve of whether its Eisenhower at Little Rock or Kennedy in Mississippi. Then they can quietly let it happen, damn the law. However, the 'law' was the South's revenge for Reconstruction. They got testy about them soldiers hanging about voting places. Took the Act to remove them and the black from the place. The whiners talk about how it protects our civil liberties when in fact it stripped blacks of their civil rights for nearly a hundred years. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-07-17 16:35 |
| #5 hmmmm thought I included this link in that comment. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-07-17 15:46 |
| #4 Paging Colonel Trautman. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-07-17 15:46 |
| #3 Posse Comitatus Act forbids the use of US military for domestic law enforcement purposes except under declared martial law. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-07-17 15:45 |
| #2 If he's that good, shouldn't the army be stepping in to take him out? I don't think SWAT could handle this guy if he decided to set up a defensible position. I'm not saying the army should sweep in to clean up their mess either, like they're guilty of something. I just think that the only people with the proper training to take this guy on is probably another sniper team. |
| Posted by: Charles 2007-07-17 15:36 |
| #1 Can't say I blame the cops for feeling that way... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-07-17 13:04 |