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...attention, profilers have long warned, to a serial killer's first strike. The first of the bullets that strafed the suburbs of Washington last week sliced through the air over a drab strip-mall parking lot in Aspen Hill, Md., and cracked a nickel-size hole in the front window of a Michaels craft store. It then arced through a leafy display of silk autumnal bouquets, zipped behind the head of a female cashier and pierced a hole through thelamp over the register of lane No. 5. Emerging on the other side, it whizzed over a Christmas-ornament display...
...press briefing to reassure the public. He promised to "greatly increase" police presence at area schools the following day, though he couldn't guarantee officers at every building. The next morning, an eighth-grade boy was shot in front of Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, Md. At a press conference, Moose struggled for composure. "I guess it's getting to be really, really personal now," he said...
Going solo intrigues many corporate refugees. According to Challenger, Gray and Christmas, 11.4% of jobless managers and executives started businesses in the first half of 2002--up from 7.9% in the same period a year ago. Frances Widnt, 47, of Baltimore, Md., is about to join them. Unable to land work as a real estate agent, she is considering kitchen design. "I've gone from being bruised to being excited," she says...
...African American makes one a police target. And if the only cause for a search is being black, doesn't that mean any contraband found would be viewed as the fruits of an illegal search and thus not be admitted in court as evidence? FRANK H. STALEY Upper Marlboro, Md...
...varmint cartridge," says Danny O. Coulson, a former FBI Hostage Rescue Team commander, "because it's used for killing foxes, coyotes, rabbits and prairie dogs." Last week someone in the Washington area was using it, with chilling efficacy, to hunt people. After seven sniper-style killings, Montgomery County, Md., police and federal investigators linked five of the murders to the same gun, firing a lightweight .223 round...