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20040310
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"Teenage
Sniper Malvo Gets Life Sentence." ... "Teenage sniper
Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday
for an October 2002 killing spree in the Washington, D.C., area that left
10 people dead." ... "Malvo, 19, was sentenced a day after sniper mastermind
John Allen Muhammad was given the death penalty. Malvo did not speak at
the brief hearing." ... "Malvo was convicted in December of the slaying
of FBI analyst Linda Franklin, 47, outside a Falls Church, Va., Home Depot
store. His defense team had argued that Malvo had been molded into a killer
by the charismatic Muhammad." -By Matthew Barakat
-AP via -Guardian.co.uk
20040309
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- Virginia
News - "Virginia
Judge Formally Sentences Sniper John Muhammad to Death."
... "John Allen Muhammad, of two men accused in the sniper-shooting deaths
of 10 people in the Washington, D.C., area in 2002, was sentenced to death
by a Virginia judge today for murdering a man at a gas station." ... "A
jury in Virginia Beach, Virginia, convicted Muhammad of capital murder,
terrorism, conspiracy and firearms violations in November for the death
of Dean Harold Meyers, 53, who was gunned down in Manassas, Virginia, in
October 2002. Meyers was the seventh sniper victim." -By
Chris Dolmetsch -Bloomberg
20031224
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- "Jury
sharply split in sparing sniper Malvo." ... "The
Virginia jury that spared the life of teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was apparently
sharply split, with five jurors favoring a death sentence but others saying
he was too young to be executed." ... "The jurors decided Tuesday -- after
nine hours of deliberation over two days -- to sentence the 18-year-old
to life without parole for his role in the Washington-area sniper slayings."
-CNN
20031219
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- "Malvo
found guilty of capital murder." ... "Lee Malvo was
convicted Thursday of two counts of capital murder in the sniper attacks
that killed 10 people and terrorized the Washington, D.C., area just more
than a year ago." ... "Malvo was charged in the killing of Linda Franklin,
47, who was shot Oct. 14, 2002, in a Home Depot parking lot in Falls Church,
Va. In the first charge, the jury had to find that Malvo killed Franklin
and at least one other person within the past three years. Malvo also was
charged under Virginia's new anti-terrorism law, which makes killing while
committing a terrorist act a capital offense." -By
Laura Parker -USATODAY
20031117
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- "Sniper
John Muhammad guilty on all counts." ... "John Allen
Muhammad faces the death penalty after being found guilty Monday of capital
murder and terrorism for his role in the sniper-style shootings that terrorized
the Washington, D.C., area last fall." ... "The Virginia jury returned
the decision after only a few hours of deliberation. Mr. Muhammad, 42,
was found guilty of all four counts, including conspiracy and using a firearm
in a crime." -By Oliver Moore
-GlobeAndMail
20031110
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"Malvo
pleads innocent." ... "Sniper supsect Lee Boyd Malvo
pleaded innocent to murder Monday as his trial was opening in the slaying
of an FBI analyst shot to death during the three-week sniper spree in the
Washington, D.C., area last fall." ... "The 18-year-old responded, "Not
guilty," in a clear voice each time when asked for his plea to two counts
of capital murder and to one count of using a firearm in a felony." -By
Adrienne Schwisow -AP
via -SFGate.com
20021027
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- "In
the Sights of the Sniper: 23 Fearful Days in October."
... "With a loud crack and a blinding light of the SWAT team's disorienting
but harmless "flash bang," the agents rushed the blue Chevrolet Caprice
parked in a highway rest stop in rural Maryland. They smashed out several
windows and unlocked the doors. Within seconds, the agents pulled the two
dazed occupants from the car at gunpoint and placed them under arrest."
... "The police had feared a bloody end to their 23-day manhunt. But the
peaceful arrests of John A. Muhammad, a 41-year-old Army veteran, and his
17-year-old companion, John Lee Malvo, brought an abrupt coda to an investigation
full of dead-end leads and missed opportunities, followed by a rapid reversal
of fortune." ... "The two men who the police now say are the snipers, who
had communicated by phone and letter with declarations like "Call me God,"
were discovered asleep at the wheel, literally. Behind the front seat,
the police say, detectives found a long white box holding a Bushmaster
XM15, a high-powered, deadly accurate weapon capable of firing .223-caliber
bullets. By nightfall on Thursday, ballistics evidence tied that rifle
to 11 of the area's 13 sniper shootings." (1, 2,
3,
4,
5,
6)
-By David Johnston and Don Van Natta Jr. -NYTimes
via -AltaVista-News
20021025
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"Sniper
suspects in hand: Evidence mounts against a
former soldier and a teenager. Motives for killing spree may include revenge
and outrage." ... "It's unlikely that terrorism, even of a homegrown variety,
was the main motive behind the sniper shootings that have clouded life
in Washington this October, say experts." ... "Details about the men arrested
Thursday morning in connection with the case suggest instead that a mix
of anger, self-importance, and desire for revenge lay behind the murders."
... ""There are a lot of scattered, little ... pieces, but nothing really
pulls them together yet," says Stanley Bedlington, a former senior analyst
at the CIA's Counterterrorism Center." -By Peter Grier
-CSMonitor/buy
20021024
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"Sniper
Hunt Culminates in 2 Arrests: Two Arrested
in D.C.-Area Sniper Case; Law Enforcement Sources Certain They Have Culprits."
... "The weapon found in the Chevrolet Caprice was a Bushmaster rifle,
according to a law enforcement source." ... "The AR-15 is the civilian
form of the M-16 military assault rifle. As a soldier, Muhammad received
a Marksmanship Badge with expert rating the highest of three ratings in
use of the M-16, according to Army records. Police also found a scope and
tripod in the car, the official said." -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
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- "Ex-Army
Marksman, Teen-Ager Arrested in Sniper Case." ...
"A Gulf War veteran who was an expert Army marksman was arrested along
with a teen-ager on Thursday in the Washington area sniper case, fueling
hopes a three-week murder spree that left 10 dead was over." ... "The two
were arrested while they slept in a car at a highway rest stop in rural
Maryland, and authorities found a Bushmaster .223 caliber rifle inside.
The sniper's victims were all felled with .223 caliber ammunition." ...
"Government sources identified the two as former U.S. Army combat engineer
John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17." - By
Mark Wilkinson -Reuters
via -ABCNEWS.com
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- "Police
hold man who may have sniper info: Former soldier
named in federal firearms warrant." ... "State Police in Maryland early
Thursday picked up a man who sniper-case investigators say may have information
about the shootings that have left 10 people dead over the last three weeks."
... "John Allen Muhammad, 42, was named in a federal arrest warrant late
Wednesday. The warrant lists federal firearms charges." ... "Muhammad and
his stepson, 17-year-old John Lee Malvo, were taken into custody in the
pre-dawn hours as they slept in a Chevrolet Caprice at a rest area on Interstate
70 near Myersville, Maryland, authorities said."
-CNN
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- "The
Subject On Everyone's Screen." ... "The Internet
is abuzz with wild speculation and outrage over the rifle shootings that
have killed 10 people and terrorized the Washington area. In a pattern
that's becoming familiar when big news breaks, the Internet is where people
turn to vent their emotions, share thoughts and drill down for information
they might have missed or can't get from TV and newspapers." ... "Google,
the Internet's top search engine, said "sniper" has zoomed to the top of
its list of fast-rising search terms. Lycos said "Washington sniper" was
its 10th most common search query last week, and that searches pertaining
to "sniper rifles" had tripled. More people also are entering "bulletproof
vest" into the query box at Lycos.com." -By Leslie
Walker -WashingtonPost
>TechNews -Washtech
20021023
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- "Sniper
Search Stretches to Tacoma: Sniper Search Stretches
Across the Country As FBI Agents Converge on Tacoma, Wash., Rental Home."
... "The search for the serial sniper jumped across the country Wednesday
as FBI agents converged on a home in Tacoma with metal detectors and chain
saws. A U.S. official in Washington said authorities were looking for two
"people of interest" one of them formerly connected to Fort Lewis, an Army
base south of Tacoma." -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
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"Sniper
search: a communication strategy: A man was
fatally shot Tuesday at a Maryland bus stop, as police continue to seek
contact with the killer." ... "As the sniper investigation grinds on, the
issue of communication among the shooter, the police, and the media has
emerged as one of the most intriguing yet exasperating facets of the case."
... ""The media are not just sitting off to the side reporting this case.
They are an active member of this complex dynamic between perpetrator,
victim, and law enforcement, and how they conduct themselves in that mix
will impact how the outcome plays out," says Jerrold Post, a psychology
expert at George Washington University and a former CIA profiler." -By
Gail Russell Chaddock -CSMonitor/buy
20021022
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"Sniper:
'Your children are not safe': Sources: Note
contained timeline for more attacks." ... "A post-script to a message believed
left by the sniper after Saturday's shooting warned: "Your children are
not safe anywhere, at any time," the lead investigator of the case said
Tuesday." ... "Meanwhile, law enforcement sources said a hand-written note
found near the scene of Saturday's sniper shooting in Virginia "hinted
at a demand for money" and threatened "more killing." One official said
it contained a timeline for authorities to act, and if they failed, then
there would be more attacks." ... "CNN initially withheld that information
at the request of law enforcement officials, who feared that releasing
it could jeopardize the investigation and put the community at risk. However,
after several other news organizations reported the information, the officials
said they had no objection to CNN reporting it."
-CNN
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- "Bus
shooting raises sniper fears." ... "The new shooting
followed a day of dashed hopes that investigators had cracked the case
with the detention of two men near Richmond, Virginia, on suspicion of
ties to the sniper attacks." ... "But authorities later announced that
two taken into custody were illegal aliens with no connection to the case.
They were being held by immigration officials, pending deportation."
-Reuters via -FT.com
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- "Man
is shot at Maryland bus stop." ... "The shooting
happened about 6 a.m. near an apartment building and wooded area along
Connecticut Avenue. The location is near the sites of the first six sniper
attacks, all on Oct. 2 and 3. In all, 12 people have been shot in Maryland,
Virginia and Washington, D.C.; three of them were critically wounded."
-By Stephen Manning -AP
via -Salon
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"Police
Ask Caller in the Sniper Make Contact." ... "In a
fitful effort at communication through the public airwaves, the police
disclosed that the person they are desperately trying to reach — the sniper
himself, in the view of many detectives — had made his own telephone call
to them since a note was left on Saturday at the scene of the latest shooting,
in Ashland, Va." ... "No details of the Ponderosa Steakhouse note have
been released other than that it was more than two pages long. Its content
clearly did not ease detectives' fears that the sniper may strike again
at any moment in some fresh direction out beyond the Washington hub." (1,
2)
-By Francis X Clines with Christopher Drew -NYTimes
via -AltaVista-News
20021021
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"Police
Want to Talk More to Sniper-Case Caller." ... ""The
person you called could not hear everything that you said; the audio was
unclear and we want to get it right," Montgomery County Police Chief Charles
Moose said at a televised news briefing, making clear he was sending a
message." ... ""Call us back so that we can clearly understand," Moose
said, speaking in Rockville, Maryland, where a task force investigating
the case is based." ... "He gave no details on who the caller might be
-- a tipster or even possibly the sniper -- or when the call was received."
-By Mark Wilkinson -Reuters
via -ABCNEWS.com
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"Message
Was Left at Latest Scene of Sniper Attack." ... ""You
gave us a telephone number," said Chief Charles A. Moose of the Montgomery
County, Md., police, directly addressing over television a person he would
not identify. "We do want to talk to you. Call us at the number you provided.""
... "Chief Moose, the leader of the investigation, addressed the dramatic
appeal to "the person who left us a message at the Ponderosa last night"
— a reference to the restaurant here where a man was critically wounded
by a single shot Saturday night as he walked in the parking lot." (1, 2)
-By Francis X. Clines -NYTimes
via -AltaVista-News
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"Richmond
Paper Makes Sniper News: Local Ties Give Reporters
a Leg Up." ... "At a time when other news outlets were still uncertain
whether the weekend message from the shooter had been left on an answering
machine or in a one-line note, the Richmond paper [TimesDispatch]
reported that police had found the communique in the woods near the shooting
site and that it was lengthy. The paper also revealed police speculation
about the possible use of a bicycle by the shooter." -By
Chris Nammour -EditorAndPublisher.com
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- OPINION
- "In
the Crosshairs of Cable News: Sniper coverage
spurs speculation, not facts." ... "Time to get the latest on the Washington-area
sniper from cable's news and speculation networks." ... "Speculation. Conjecture.
Guesswork. This is what happens when news networks have 15 minutes of new
news and 24 hours to fill." -By Noel Holston
-Newsday.com
20021019
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"Sniper
spy in the sky." ... "The army spy plane that is
taking to the skies above the Washington area is a sign of the intense
pressure investigators are under as they struggle with a lack of clues."
... "RC-7 reconnaissance planes are loaded with camera equipment with a
range of up to 20 miles (32 kilometres), advanced night vision and heat-seeking
equipment." -By Kathryn Westcott
-BBC/News
20021017
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"Sniper
revives prospects for gun-tracking moves." ... "While
large majorities of Americans have long favored tougher controls on firearms,
some 40 percent of Americans have a gun in their homes, up from 34 percent
at the time of the Columbine school shooting-spree in April 1999. Many
strongly oppose new limits, and some have been prompted to buy and carry
weapons in the wake of the sniper attacks." -By Gail
Russell Chaddock -CSMonitor
20021016
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"Barbara
Starr: Military joins sniper probe." ... "The aircraft
to be used are the RC-7 and U-21 -- small fixed-wing planes packed advanced
technology, including sensors. They are all-weather planes that have the
capability of operating round the clock." ... "STARR: Under the posse comitatus
law, which dates back originally to 1878, no military involvement [is allowed]
in law enforcement. And that means they can't pursue, they can't target,
they have no powers of arrest." ... "But in recent years, what has come
to happen is the military can provide assistance, and of course, the best
example is the drug enforcement issue, drug interdiction." ... -CNN
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"Secret
Military Spy Planes Enlisted in Hunt for Sniper."
... "The Pentagon agreed today to patrol the skies over the nation's capital
with secret surveillance planes — now used to combat drug lords in Colombia
and track military movements in North Korea — as part of a broadening effort
to catch the sniper in the Washington area." ... "While senior Pentagon
officials considered a range of aircraft, including unmanned drones like
the Predators used in Afghanistan and Navy P-3 Orion surveillance planes,
military officials settled on the unusual Army plane because of its technical
capabilities and because it blends in with civilian aircraft flying in
the Washington airspace." ... "The aircraft is a four-engine turbo-prop
DeHavilland DHC-7 equipped with an array of special sensors that can provide
high-resolution imagery as well as other detection capabilities." (1, 2)
-By Eric Lichtblau and Eric Schmitt -NYTimes
via -Google-News
20021015
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"Woman
Shot Dead Outside Fairfax [County, Virginia] Store:
Seven Corners Center Attack Is Similar to Sniper Pattern." ... "The shooting
in the Falls Church area occurred about 9:15 p.m. at the Seven Corners
Shopping Center, which is bounded by major Northern Virginia traffic arteries,
and it prompted police to set up checkpoints on principal roads for miles
around. Traffic came to a standstill." ... "Last night's killing, about
six miles from the District, occurred much closer to the core of the metropolitan
area than three shootings last week that took place in less densely populated
Bowie, Spotsylvania County and Prince William County. The previous week,
five people were slain in Montgomery County and one in Northwest Washington,
and a woman was wounded in Spotsylvania." -By Martin
Weil and Petula Dvorak -WashingtonPost
20021011
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"Warner
Confirms Shooting in Va." ... "A person has been
shot at an Exxon gas station near Fredericksburg, Virginia Gov. Mark Warner
confirmed this morning." -By Robert H. Melton
-AP via -WashingtonPost
20021010
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"Man
shot, killed at D.C.-area gas station: Virginia police
investigate possible sniper link" ... "Authorities in Virginia said Thursday
they were operating under the assumption that a fatal shooting Wednesday
night was the latest in a series of sniper attacks, but they had not established
a definitive link." ... "The victim of Wednesday night's shooting in was
identified as Dean Harold Meyers, 53, of Gaithersburg, Maryland. Authorities
said he was shot once in the head. All the sniper victims so far have been
hit with a single shot." -CNN
-
- "As
sniper hunt grows, role of media blurs." ... "Police
scold reporters for 'interference,' but thank them for publicizing citizen
hot line." ... "In the D.C. case, the local CBS affiliate, WUSA, Channel
9, uncovered the fact that police had found a note – scrawled on a tarot
card – near the scene of Monday's shooting. It read, "Dear Policeman, I
am God."" ... "That set off [Montgomery County Police Chief Charles] Moose,
who said at yesterday's press conference, "I ask my community, do you want
the police department to work the case or do you want Channel 9 to work
the case? Let me know because there is no room, in my mind, for both of
us."" -By Kim Campbell
-CSMonitor/buy
20021009
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"ATF Online - Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms." ... http://www.atf.treas.gov
- "Through its National Integrated Ballistic Information Network
(NIBIN) Program, ATF deploys Integrated Ballistic Identification System
(IBIS) equipment into State and local law enforcement agencies for their
use in imaging and comparing crime gun evidence. This equipment allows
firearms technicians to acquire digital images of the markings made by
a firearm on bullets and cartridge casings; the images then undergo automated
initial comparison. Go to the NIBIN.gov
site - Photo
Link."
-
"[NEW] Read the new NIBIN publication - [PDF:]ATF
P 3315.2 - Bullets, Casings and You" - http://www.atf.treas.gov
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- "Profiler:
Sniper case publicity a balancing act." ... "One
of the lead investigators in the Washington, D.C.-area sniper shootings
lashed out at the media Wednesday." ... "Montgomery County, Maryland, Police
Chief Charles Moose was upset that information about a tarot card left
near the scene of the most recent shooting -- and inscribed with the message,
"Dear Policeman: I am God" -- had been leaked to the media."
-CNN
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"'Death'
Card Found at Sniper Scene." ... "Investigators searching
for a sniper terrorizing the Washington suburbs found a tarot card with
the words, "Dear policeman, I am God," near a bullet casing outside the
school where a 13-year-old boy was critically wounded, a source familiar
with the investigation confirmed Wednesday." -By David
Dishneau -AP
via -Seattle-PI.com.NWsource
20021008
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- "Security
tight at D.C.-area schools: Shooting of 13-year-old linked to sniper
killings." ... "Students were escorted into classrooms
Tuesday under heavy guard at schools in metro Washington as police hunted
for the sniper who shot a 13-year-old boy in front of a suburban middle
school in Maryland -- the eighth random hit since last week."
-CNN
20021004
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- "Pair
Sought in Md. Sniper Slays: Maryland Police
Seek Sniper and Driver After 5 Killed in D.C. Suburbs; Sixth Death Under
Investigation." ... "Maryland police said Friday they were looking for
two men a driver and a sniper in the fatal shootings of at least five people
in the suburbs north of Washington, D.C."
-AP via
-ABCNEWS.com
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"Experts
Look to Rifle in Gun Spree: Experts Say Gun
Used in Suburban Washington Shootings Likely a High-Powered Rifle." ...
"Montgomery County police said it was likely that the shots, described
as .223-caliber bullets, were fired from a rifle such as a Colt AR-15 the
semiautomatic, civilian version of the military M-16 assault rifle."
-AP via
-ABCNEWS.com
20021003
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- "Five
killed in Montgomery County, Md., suburbs; victims gunned down one by one."
... "Five people were fatally shot one by one in public places within 16
hours of each other in Washington's [D.C.] suburbs, and authorities said
Thursday there was a ''strong possibility'' the killings were related."
-By Stephen Manning -AP
via -Boston/Globe
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