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New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com FBI got tips before spree By HELEN KENNEDY DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU Saturday, October 26th, 2002 WASHINGTON — Tipsters warned authorities at least twice about John Allen Muhammad before the alleged sniper began his rampage — including an alert by a priest who told the FBI he suspected the volatile vet might be a terrorist. As prosecutors vowed to convict and execute Muhammad yesterday, more details began to emerge about the trail of warning signs he left behind. "I always figured we would read about John in the news," said the Rev. Al Archer, director of the Lighthouse Mission in Bellingham, Wash., where Muhammad lived sporadically for several months. "If he had been stopped at that time, a lot of people would be alive who are not," he told the Bellingham Herald. Muhammad, 41, suspected of killing at least 11 people in Maryland, Virginia and Alabama, was charged with six counts of capital murder in Maryland yesterday. Neither Muhammad nor his alleged teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, were talking to police. CNN and NBC reported Malvo threw a fit and tried to escape through a ventilation duct. He reportedly was moved to a maximum security state prison in Baltimore. Malvo, 17, a Jamaican, will be tried as an adult but does not face the death penalty in Maryland because he is a juvenile. The FBI issued a material witness warrant for Nathaniel Osbourne, 26, of Trenton, who co- owned the blue Chevy Caprice Muhammad allegedly used as a mobile sniper's nest. Authorities said they want to talk to Osbourne. Officials now think a white van never was involved and the only vehicle the sniper used was the blue car Muhammad and Malvo lived in during the spree. Authorities in the Washington region spotted the Chevy Caprice and recorded its New Jersey license plates on at least 10 occasions this month, but saw no reason to link it to the attacks until this week, The Washington Post reported. Those were just some of several missed opportunities. A month after last year's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Archer called the FBI and Bellingham cops to warn them about his odd guest — a man who lived in a homeless shelter and didn't have a car but seemed to do a lot of traveling on planes to places like Denver, New Orleans and the Cayman Islands. "At the mission, not many airline agents call and ask for residents," Archer, who was on vacation yesterday and could not be reached, told the Bellingham paper. "I felt like he was part of an organization. I felt like he had some connection with terrorists," Archer said. "I said he's got connections somewhere with somebody who's got money." But the message got lost in a flood of tips pouring into the FBI from a jittery public. Police in Tacoma, Wash., where Muhammad lived for several years, have reopened their investigation into a February murder for a possible link to the sniper suspect. In 1995, Muhammad employed the aunt of a woman who was killed this year by a single shot from a large-caliber handgun, a Tacoma police spokesman told Reuters. The 21-year-old victim had been living with her aunt, who sided with Muhammad's second wife, Mildred, during a divorce and bitter child custody battle. The murder came just four days after Muhammad was arrested for shoplifting in Tacoma. "That's how we know he was in the area," the police spokesman said. A Washington State gun shop owner said federal agents are trying to determine whether his store sold the weapon used in the sniper shootings. The owner of Bull's Eye Shooter Supply in Tacoma, Brian Borgelt, said agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have interviewed him and his employees. "Regardless of the circumstances surrounding it, it's this hollow, empty feeling you can't describe," Borgelt said. 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