More than one sniper?

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=29253

 

Posted: October 11, 2002

1:15 p.m. Eastern

 

 

By Paul Sperry

© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

 

WASHINGTON – Authorities here are now investigating the possibility that the Beltway sniper shootings are the work of multiple shooters using multiple .223-caliber rifles and traveling in multiple white vehicles, WorldNetDaily has learned.

 

"We're looking at that angle," said Prince Georges County Police Department Detective Paula Pascarella, working on the special ATF task force.

 

In 10 days, 10 people in Washington and four surrounding counties have been shot. Eight have died, all from a single bullet wound to the torso or head.

 

Authorities are growing increasingly doubtful that a single sniper could strike with such frequency over such a broad territory in such a short period – and still avoid detection.

 

"If this is one shooter, he's got a helluva lot of energy – and luck," said a federal law-enforcement officer.

 

In addition, eyewitness accounts of the vehicle seen fleeing the scenes of at least four shootings have varied.

 

An eyewitness to a shooting in Montgomery County last week reported seeing a white box truck with two Hispanic-looking men in the cab, according to an initial Montgomery County Police lookout bulletin released to law enforcement last week.

 

A witness in the Prince Georges County shooting claimed to have seen a man leave the woods carrying a duffle bag near the school where a 13-year-old boy was shot. The witness said the man got into a truck.

 

Witnesses at a Sunoco gas station in Prince William County say they saw a white panel van (with no side windows) resembling a Dodge Caravan leave the scene.

 

Now police in Spotsylvania County, site of the latest shooting which occurred at an Exxon station, are looking for two men in a white box-shaped cargo van with what they describe as "ladder racks" on top. It's said to resemble a Chevy Astro Van.

 

Authorities say white cargo trucks and vans are common, making it hard to track down the shooters.

 

They also say that – with the exception of the school shooting, which apparently came from the woods – it's possible that the sniper or snipers are firing from inside the windowless cargo areas, and not the passenger windows, of the vehicles.

 

Well, there you go. I guess if you live in Maryland or Virginia, have an enemy you don't like very much, and own a white van & a rifle that fires .223 bullets.... Errrr.... Nevermind.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

I'm still betting it's one guy. Well, hoping anyways. Why? Because then I can safely say that we have some smoooooooth killers in America that don't fuck up by dressing like clowns.

[Guest Insanityman]

Yeah, really though... what's their drive? Just sadistic anarchists trying to prove some point? Did insanity plague 'em? *Shrugs.*

[Guest Samurai_Goat]

Haven't you guys been paying attention!?! It's video games! Those guys have obviously been playing too much Mario Sunshine and Starfox Adventures.

[Guest DrTom]

The Hillside Strangler turned out to be two people. It wouldn't surprise me if the DC sniper ended up the same way, but there's not enough evidence that I've seen to make a determination one way or the other.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I'm still betting it's one guy. Well, hoping anyways. Why? Because then I can safely say that we have some smoooooooth killers in America that don't fuck up by dressing like clowns.

Yeah, but Gacy savagely raped and killed over 30 people over a span of several years. The sniper isn't a serial killer in that sense, though. He's not choosing victims based on anything, the killings are random. The MO is the same, but that's about it.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

But still...CLOWN~!