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They got a plate number this time...
Ballistics evidence links the death of a woman shot in a suburban parking lot to the Washington-area sniper, and authorities said Tuesday they were confident that detailed witness accounts from the scene would lead them to the person who has now killed nine people. Linda Franklin, 47, of Arlington was shot in the head Monday night as she and her husband loaded packages into their car outside a Home Depot at the Seven Corners Shopping Center. Bet this orifice felt real powerful as he was "eliminating" her, by golly... "There was some additional information that we were able to get from last night's case and I am confident that that information is going to lead us to an arrest in the case," Fairfax County Police Chief Tom Manger said at a morning briefing. Those are the words we've been waiting to hear... He suggested that witnesses gave investigators more details than on any of the other shootings. For the first time, witnesses were able to give license plate numbers of vehicles seen leaving the scene, he said. Manger declined to discuss which state the license plates were from or answer questions about whether police had a description of the shooter. He said only that several people contacted police after the shooting and investigators were still interviewing them. Now all they have to do is sort through some of the stories. Last night the driver was olive-skinned, this morning on the radio he was fair-complexioned. I'm sorry, but I really hope they don't take him alive. FOLLOWUP: Chuck Watson thinks the shooter's a team â the shooter and a spotter. He also thinks the guy's police, not military, trained. And he thinks it's a terrorist situation. I still think it's a "mad bomber" story... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-10-15 |
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