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Kindgo
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BOWIE, Md. (October 8, 8:31 a.m. EDT) - Parents in the suburbs around Washington anguished over their children's safety Tuesday after a sniper linked to the murder of six adults last week resurfaced to cut down a middle-school student.
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Kindgo
Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.
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Miguel
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THIS IS WHAT SATAN IS ALL ABOUT, TO DESTROY, DESTROY, AND DESTROY.
DEAR FATHER I ASKED OF THEE THAT EVEN IF WE SEE DEATH FACE TO FACE THAT YOUR COMFORT WILL BE AN EVERLASTING UNTO US.
IN JESUS CHRIST
LET THY PERFECT WILL BE DONE
AMEN
DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS BE CAREFUL IT CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE.
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Romans 9:11-24
Our Eschatology may vary even our Ecclesiology may be disputed among us but our Soteriology most assume a singularity and exclusivity which in biblical term is known as Quote; "The Narrow Way" and Quote!
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Evidence Links Monday's Shooting to Spree
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Monday, October 07, 2002
BOWIE, Md. — Police say ballistic evidence they have recovered from a 13-year-old boy shot in front of his school in Bowie, Md., Monday links the shooting to several in the Washington area.
The boy, who sustained a single gunshot wound to the chest, was in critical but stable condition following almost three hours of surgery at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C., and doctors said they were "satisfied" with how he got through the operation.
The victims in last week's shootings -- six people killed and one wounded -- were felled by a single shot.
Dr. Martin Eichelberger said the boy had a gunshot wound to the abdomen, which went through his chest, then into his spleen, stomach, pancreas and lung.
He said the boy's spleen was removed along with part of his stomach and pancreas, but he says those are organs a person can "live without."
Eichelberger said the major concerns now for doctors are whether the boy continues to bleed, and whether he has problems breathing. He said the next eight hours are crucial to determine the boy's recovery.
The doctor said the surgery team made a special effort to find a portion of the bullet, which they gave to police.
Evidence recovered from the teen has been linked to the other shootings in the Washington area, Prince George's County Police Chief Gerald Wilson said today.
FNC
Monday's shooting happened well before classes were scheduled to begin, so there were not a lot of witnesses, Wilson said. A gunshot was heard, and the boy slumped over and told his aunt, who had brought him to school, that he thought he had been shot, Wilson said.
His aunt took him to a small hospital in this suburb northeast of Washington, and then he was transferred by helicopter to Children's Hospital.
Police cars surrounded the school and officers put up crime scene tape and searched the campus.
Sharon Healy had just sent her 12-year-old son, Brandon, to school on his bicycle when she heard of the shooting shortly after 8 a.m. outside Benjamin Tasker Middle School. She said she ran there and pulled him out of class.
"You think you're safe, but you're only as safe as your next step," Healy said.
Said her son: "I was scared."
Othar Haskins, 13, standing outside the school with his mother, said he was a friend of the wounded boy.
"He's funny, he's always around friends," Othar said. "He helps you out when you need it. He's a good friend." Othar cried and put his head on his mother's shoulder as he spoke.
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Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose
Last Wednesday and Thursday, five people were shot to death by a sniper in a 16-hour span in Montgomery County. A sixth victim was killed Thursday in Washington, D.C. On Friday, a woman was shot and wounded in Virginia.
"All of our victims have been innocent and defenseless, but now we're stepping over the line," Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose said. "Shooting a kid -- it's getting to be really, really personal now." At one point, tears streamed down his face.
In an afternoon briefing, Moose said police were investigating yet another shooting in Washington.
But Washington police spokesman Kenny Bryson said the shooting occurred in an apparent robbery and there's "no link whatsoever" to the sniper attacks.
White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said federal authorities -- the attorney general, Treasury Department and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms -- have been "very involved on the ground and have lent support and equipment."
Asked if there was any evidence of terrorism, Fleischer replied: "I've not heard anything like that, but the fact of the matter is that people are trying to determine who the shooter is, or shooters are, and we continue to help local officials in that endeavor."
Montgomery schools had planned a normal schedule with extra security, but after the Prince George's shooting, officials initiated a "code blue" alert, keeping students inside during recess and lunchtime, Moose said. Prince George's schools and some other schools in the region took similar steps.
The five Montgomery County victims were all gunned down in public places: two at gas stations, one outside a grocery, another outside a post office, another as he mowed the grass at an auto dealership, and the sixth, a 72-year-old man, killed on a Washington street corner. Each victim was shot once from a distance. There were no known witnesses.
Tests confirmed that the same weapon was used to kill four victims.
Ballistics evidence also linked the Maryland slayings with the wounding of a 43-year-old woman on Friday. She was shot in the back in a parking lot at a Michaels craft store in Fredericksburg, Va., and was in fair condition Monday at INOVA Fairfax Hospital.
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God bless,
Kindgo
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Susan
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This has been so heartbreaking! But not surprising as the Bible warms us of such lawlessness and more.
I watched CNN too and really lost it when they interviewed a scared boy who said he didn't " want to die like that!" I lost it and cried for a long while.
I pray in Jesus name that whoever is doing this will be caught NOW!
I also pray for the families of the victims.
I just can't imagine his happening in my family.
In this last days we live in, nothing is impossible.
I claim the blood of Jesus over my family and over all those who come here to this board.
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http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/South/10...land/index.html
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (CNN) -- Police chasing down hundreds of leads in the Washington-area sniper shootings said they have beefed up patrols around schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, as the workweek starts and the shooter or shooters remain on the loose.
There will be a regular school day with a "great deal" of police visibility, Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose said. Maryland state police will be patrolling at 28 local schools, Moose said. But officials later said children at Montgomery County schools would not be allowed outside for recess.
In Bowie, Maryland -- south of Rockville in Prince Georges County -- a 13-year-old boy was shot in the chest Monday morning while on the way to Benjamin Tasker Middle School, police said. They said they were not sure if the shooting was related to the sniper killings.
A relative took the boy to a local hospital, police said. He was stabilized at the hospital and then airlifted to Children's Hospital in Washington.
Police urged citizens Monday to contact an investigation hot line.
"We're still not convinced we've heard from people we want to talk to," said Moose, who spoke to reporters at an early Monday briefing. "We still want to hear from people."
Also, authorities are aware that the morning rush hour is "an enhanced, target-rich environment," Moose said.
Five people were shot and killed in Montgomery County during a 16-hour period from Wednesday night into Thursday morning. A sixth victim was shot dead Thursday night on a Washington street. A seventh person was wounded Friday in Virginia.
Maj. Howard Smith of the Spotsylvania County, Virginia, sheriff's office said testing by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms concluded the .223-caliber slug from the van of the Virginia victim matched rounds taken from three of the people killed in Maryland and the man killed in Washington.
When asked about leads from other recent shootings in Montgomery Country, Moose said that "so far there is nothing that we heard that is connected." He didn't elaborate on the incidents in question.
Police continued searching for a white van seen by a witness speeding from the parking lot of a post office Thursday immediately after a shooting there.
Montgomery County, Maryland police chief Charles Moose talks to reporters Monday.
Moose said there are 952 credible leads being followed up by local, state and federal investigators. There are 15 investigators "at the ready" who will answer phones, he said. He urged callers who don't get an answer when they call to try again.
Moose said investigators are pursuing geographical and psychological profiles and a "bountiful amount" of information has been gleaned.
"It is a tool to help our investigators," Moose said. He said the profiles are adjusted as more information is amassed through investigation. He cautioned that while profiles have helpful information, police have to keep an open mind and not exclude anyone, cautioning against "tunnel vision."
D. Kim Rossmo, a former Canadian detective working with investigators, said Sunday geographic profiling compares the location of the crimes with other information collected by police to give investigators "some idea of the likely base or residence of the offender responsible."
"In effect, it provides an optimal search strategy," Rossmo said.
Rossmo, director of research for the Washington-based Police Foundation, said crimes typically take place "fairly close to an offender's home but not too close."
"At some point, for a given offender, their desire for anonymity balances their desire to operate in their comfort zone," Rossmo said. "Where that exact point is will vary on the offender, their mode of transportation and also maybe their degree of confidence."
Mourners attended a funeral Sunday for one of Thursday's victims, Prenkumar Walekar, 54, a Olney, Maryland, cabdriver who was killed while filling his minivan with gas at a service station in nearby Aspen Hill.
The shootings began Wednesday afternoon when someone fired a shot through a window at another Michaels crafts store in Wheaton, Maryland, but no one was hit.
The first killing took place at 6:05 p.m. Wednesday when 55-year-old James D. Martin, a program analyst for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was shot in the parking lot of Shoppers Food Warehouse in Wheaton.
At 7:41 a.m. Thursday, police were called to a crime scene and found James L. Buchanan, a 39-year-old landscaper who had been shot while mowing a lawn at a commercial establishment near Rockville. Buchanan was identified as the son of a retired Montgomery County police officer.
At 8:12 a.m. Thursday, a caller reported the shooting death of Walekar.
At 8:37 a.m. Thursday, Sarah Ramos, 34, of Silver Spring was killed at a post office near Leisure World, a retirement community. Immediately after the shooting, a witness reporting seeing a white van or truck speed from the post office parking lot.
At 9:58 a.m. Thursday, Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, 25, of Silver Spring was reported shot at a Shell gas station in Kensington where she was vacuuming her van.
At about 9:15 p.m. Thursday, in the only killing in Washington and the only one to occur at night, Pascal Charlot, 72, was shot in the chest as he walked along Georgia Avenue. He was taken to a hospital, where he died less than an hour later.
Authorities said each victim was shot once and that the victims appeared to have been chosen at random.
Authorities have offered up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and indictment of the person suspected in the killings.
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God bless,
Kindgo
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