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http://wire.ap.org/?SLUG=SNIPER%2dSHOOTINGS
AP Report
OCTOBER 09, 14:14 ET
Woman Questioned in Md. Sniper Hunt
By DAVID DISHNEAU
Associated Press Writer
AP/Don Wright [20K]
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ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) ‹ A tarot card with the words, ``Dear policeman, I am
God'' was found near a bullet casing outside the school where a 13-year-old
boy was critically wounded, a person familiar with the investigation said
Wednesday.
The shell casing was .223-caliber, the same caliber investigators believe
was used to kill six people in the Washington area and wound another, Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent Michael Bouchard said Wednesday.
He would not discuss whether authorities had linked the casing to the
shooting Monday at the school or to the other apparently random attacks.
Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose, who has been leading the
investigation, wouldn't comment when asked about the tarot card Wednesday
but he said he was angry that unapproved information was being leaked.
``I need to make sure I don't do anything to hinder our ability to bring
this person or these people into custody,'' Moose said.
The taunting message left on a tarot card known as the Death card, first
reported Tuesday night on WUSA-TV and then by The Washington Post, was
confirmed by a source Wednesday to The Associated Press.
Police sources told the newspaper that the tarot card was found next to the
spent shell casing in a wooded area about 150 yards from the school entrance
in an area of matted grass, suggesting the gunman had lain in wait.
AP/Rick Bowmer [19K]
...
The motive for the seemingly random crimes still eluded police Wednesday,
one week after the first of six slayings. Nearly 200 investigators were
working their way through 1,600 leads culled from 8,000 tips.
``We need just a shred of evidence,'' Prince George's County Police Chief
Gerald Wilson said.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20021009/ts_nm/crime_shoot
ings_dc_51
Cops Silent on 'Death Card' in Sniper Case
Wed Oct 9,11:24 AM ET
ROCKVILLE, Md. (Reuters) - The Washington area sniper who has killed six
people and injured two others reportedly left a haunting message for police
-- "Dear Policeman, I am God" -- but investigators angrily refused on
Wednesday to discuss the possible evidence.
Reuters Photo
AP Photo
Slideshow: Maryland Shooting Spree
Child Shot Near School in Md. Suburb
(AP Video)
Residents, Police Anxious Over Shootings
(AP Video)
Quoting law enforcement sources, WUSA television reported that detectives
who recovered a shell casing in woods near Monday's shooting, when a 13-year
old boy was badly wounded, found a Tarot card known as the "Death Card" with
a message scrawled on the back that read: "Dear Policeman, I am God."
At the first of several news briefings scheduled for Wednesday, Montgomery
County Police Chief Charles Moose declined to discuss the card.
"It is inappropriate to comment about this card. There has not been anything
authorized for release by me," Moose said.
Contacted about the card, a police spokeswoman told Reuters that she could
not confirm it.
A frustrated Moose reacted angrily when asked about the reported message.
"Someone in the team, someone on the law enforcement community has done
something I find very inappropriate. It indicates that I don't have control
of the team," he said.
Moose said the investigation "continued to unfold" but offered few details
about how police work was progressing in finding the killer.
"The person, or the people, that are doing this, rethink what you are doing,
turn yourself in to law enforcement," Moose pleaded at a later news
briefing.
Since Oct. 2, the sniper has killed five people and wounded one in Maryland
suburbs of the U.S. capital, killed one person in Washington and wounded
another in Fredericksburg, Virginia, about 80 miles south of the other
shooting sites.
SNIPER SILENT SINCE MONDAY
With the sniper silent since early Monday, area residents were on edge on
Wednesday, wondering if the shooter might strike again. Schools in
Montgomery County, which were heavily guarded by police following Monday's
shooting, were closed on Wednesday for a long-planned teacher training day.
In neighboring Prince George's County, where the 13-year-old boy was
critically wounded as he was dropped off at his school, police were checking
a report of a "suspicious person" carrying a shotgun near Friendly High
School.
"We have officers there combing the area near the woodbine," Prince George's
County spokeswoman Corporal Tammy Sparkman said by telephone. "The witness
stated that she saw a suspicious person carrying what appeared to be some
type of shotgun."
The search area is around the town of Clinton, close to Andrews Air Force
Base southeast of Washington, D.C. It was not known whether this is related
to the sniper shootings.
Authorities had also been examining evidence from a Sept. 14 shooting in
Montgomery County to assess if it was related to the sniper shootings. "The
forensic work on the Sept. 14 shooting is inconclusive," Moose said, adding
that further tests were not expected.
Each victim was hit by a single shot fired from an assault rifle. There was
no indication the victims, aged 13 to 72, knew each other. Ballistics
evidence connected the crimes.
Authorities offered a $237,000 reward for information leading to the arrest
of the sniper.
The shootings rattled residents in and around the U.S. capital, where many
people were still unnerved by the Sept. 11, 2001, strike on the Pentagon
(news - web sites) and letters sent later containing anthrax spores.
No one has reported seeing the shooter in any of the eight incidents. Police
said the weapon was probably an assault rifle or hunting rifle accurate up
to 730 yards.
The Secret Service (news - web sites), the FBI (news - web sites), U.S.
Marshals and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have joined state
and local police in the investigation.
Montgomery County officials also have requested assistance from U.S.
Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites), seeking additional help
under a federal law pertaining to serial killings.
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