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...there was ever to be a convergence of moment and messenger for tough gun control, it might have come on the day last week when the sniper killed his final victim. It was then that Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, whose family has twice been devastated by guns and who is locked in a tight race to govern the state where six of the 10 sniper murders took place, was invited by CNN to say something on the subject. The lieutenant governor of Maryland chose her words carefully, never once uttering "gun control," but referring instead to her support for "commonsense...
...murder spree that paralyzed some Washington suburbs for three weeks may have begun months earlier with a string of violent crimes stretching from Washington State to the Southeastern U.S. Police chiefs in Tacoma, Wash., and Baton Rouge, La., announced last week that the two men charged in the sniper shootings, John Allen Muhammad, 41, and Lee Malvo, 17, may be linked to other killings. These crimes, however, seem to have been committed at closer range than the Washington-area murders. Like the failed liquor-store robbery in Montgomery, Ala., that provided authorities with the case's first major break...
...testing saliva used to seal a letter left at the murder scene outside a Ponderosa steak house in Virginia for a match with either man's dna. Meanwhile, more evidence is emerging of the lengths to which desperate authorities went in an effort to catch the snipers. At the height of the Beltway crisis, fbi sources tell Time, the bureau's elite hostage-rescue team secretly paired with local swat teams and scattered around the region in unmarked cars. Clad in body armor and equipped with night-vision gear and secure radios, the groups were prepared to race...
John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, the prime suspects in the sniper attacks that left 10 dead and three wounded in the Washington, D.C. area, face murder charges in Maryland, Virginia and Alabama, and are also considered suspects in a February killing in Washington state. This week, the Justice Department filed 20 federal weapons and extortion charges against Muhammad. The same counts were levied against Malvo privately; his age prevents him from being charged or tried publicly. The big question: Where will they be tried first...
...slow-motion wait continued for the people who live within the sniper's range. Politicians were openly worried about how to secure polling places for upcoming elections. And high school football teams played at secret locations released only on a need-to-know basis...