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Monkey County coppers looking for random killer...
Two men, a driver and a shooter, are being sought for the deaths of five people gunned down in the Washington suburbs hours and miles apart from each other, police said Friday. Police were also still looking for a white cargo van, and had refined their description of the vehicle, but did not release the additional details, Montgomery County police chief Charles Moose said. The description of the van and two men first came from a single witness at the scene of one of the shootings, but Moose refused to say whether that was the only witness. "You've got a driver, you've got a shooter," Moose said. "In terms of whether that turns out to be a mistake, I want to say no lead is a mistake. We will search down all leads, if we track down the truck and it turns out not to be involved then that is the case." He doesn't sound too doubtful about the truck... Moose said investigators were tracking down more than 200 leads. A man arrested near the scene of one of the shootings turned out not to be involved, the police chief said. Probably won't be the only one stopped... Moose also said police were looking into a shooting Thursday night in Washington to see if it was related. In that shooting, Pascal Charlot, 72, of Washington, was shot once in the chest as he stood on a street corner in Northwest Washington. In the Our Nation's Capital, that's not an unheard-of occurrence. It could be related, or not... Joseph Riehl, a spokesman for the Baltimore office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, would not comment on whether any slugs had been recovered. Investigators are "90 percent" certain the five were all killed with a .223-caliber weapon, police said. Riehl, however, said a person with reasonable shooting skills could accurately use a weapon loaded with .223 rounds from about 150 yards. Riehl said such weapons can be accurate up to 600 meters, or about 650 yards. Since this happened only ten miles or so to the west of where I work, I take it personally. WTOP also says the coppers are looking into a similar shooting in Spottsylvania, in Virginia. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-10-04 |
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