October 21, 2002

Today's MD shooter speculation

First, doesn't stopping the guys in the white van at the phone booth in the manner described here kinda tip the cop's hand? Shouldn't they have carefully followed them and done the arrest away from the phone booth so the real shooter would continue to try to get in touch with them? Yeah, I know. They're there, let's get them while we can. But, it seems like that was somewhat of a mistake.

Back to the real shooter. Could he and his partner be gay? That would explain why one hasn't turned in the other. The rampage could have started when they learned that they were both HIV+, or that they couldn't afford HIV drugs. That might also, in one way or another, explain why there haven't been male victims between 14 and 36.

Unless of course the liquor store clerk was the first victim, in which case the age range 23 to 36 seems less of an issue. However, the liquor store clerk shooting might have been done by someone else, and it just gave the current shooter his idea. If that's correct, then I wonder how he found out about the clerk shooting. I doubt whether it was anything more than a small blurb in the WaPo, maybe it wasn't even in a newspaper at all. In that case, he could have found out about it through some direct or indirect connection with the liquor store, the shopping center it's in, the police, the paramedics, the hospital, etc.

If, however, the liquor store clerk was the first victim, then two of the victims are Indian. Is that percentage supported by the demographics of the areas in which they were shot?

Posted to Sniper at October 21, 2002 06:26 PM

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