JJredskins00 Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 On all major news channels. 60 year old man shot in Ashland, Virginia, a suburb of Richmond. He was shot near I-95 and its pretty much in a lockdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 Yea... just turned it on. Watching Fox cover it now.... this sucks. :cuss: :cuss: :cuss: :cuss: :cuss: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJredskins00 Posted October 20, 2002 Author Share Posted October 20, 2002 I don't agree with them just looking for a white van. I don't remember hearing them say they had witnesses seeing a white van leaving. If I was this guy...I wouldn't go near a white van.:mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 On the plus side, the victim is stll alive and is in surgery. Thoughts and prayers with he and his family. Happend outside a Ponderosa at 7:59. Victim is a 37 y/o male. Single shot. Police could be talking to witnesses. Could have more info in an hour. According to Lt. Doug Goodman Hanover sherrif's department. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJredskins00 Posted October 20, 2002 Author Share Posted October 20, 2002 Yeah...I just heard them say it was a 37 year old man...before they were saying it was a 60 year old man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeorama Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 I'm watching now too. The media is making this whole thing worse. First they say the schools are safe, so he shoots a child, then they say he does it in unpopulated areas, so he shoots someone at Home Depot. Now, they have said he doesn't kill on the weekends, so look what happens. He is obviously paying attention to what the media is reporting and proving them wrong. We all know the media sucks in relation to football, now they are clearly showing they just plain suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opiate-Zeo Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 If this is another sniper shooting, I wonder if he is starting to move south down 95 now. Ashland is pretty far away from NorVA and the DC area. If it is him/them, he is probably moving to catch more people that are not as "terrorized" as the people around the beltway. God I prey that these people/person slips up soon so we can catch him. I don't want to see any more people hurt. sickening.... :cuss: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 The video from WWBT is showing traffic ther in Ashburn and outside. Things are locked up tight. Amazing. There is a road block narrowing the highway to 1 lane. Police are inspecting each vehicle. This is happening at least 30 miles away from the shooting. Conflicting, go figure, reports coming out right now. AP reporting that no witness beside companion of victim, ( who reportedly didn't see anything), to incident. However someone has reported that the police are searching for a white rental van with 2000 licence plate. sigh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OaktonSkins/BushFan Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 Until the govt. gets very serious about this, I believe this reign of terror will continue. What do I believe is serious? Well, for starters it seems that the local boys lack the resources to deal with something like this. As such, it's time to turn this over to the Feds who will need to seek the assistance of the Pentagon. This may very well be the work of an international terrorist organization (e.g. Al Qaeda) which makes an escalation to these levels necessary. How can the military help? Advanced survelliance/tracking aircraft and equipment is a great start, as they are doing. The use of anti-sniper special forces will probably be necessary. Perhaps a deployment of National Guard units would assist in blanketing areas part of a dragnet. Dragnet's focusing on just major arteries is pointless. Focusing on just a few specific vehicle types is pointless. Performing brief, cursory inspections of selected vehicles is pointless. Focusing on just roadways and vehicles is insufficient. In know this seems extreme, but this situation is rapidly getting out of control and warrants a response in kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 Ooooooookay. CNN is reporting that possible witness are being interviewed. They apparently talked to the man, who worked at a nearby gas station, who may have originally placed the 911 call. No info. Man was a shot in the abdomen and is reported as in serious condition. Other witness(s), being interviewed according to CNN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murilo Bustamante Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 Man, they NEED to catch this jerk. Preferably, a mob catches him first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brave Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 This was not hard to predict. One thing I find interesting is he's been inactive since Monday night, his longest stretch during the week since he started. Was that a close call that has made him back off a bit or is he changing up his habits again? Might that mean we've seen the last of the "quiet" weekends? Had a feeling that, after all the talk of "no weekend shootings" he was going to do one. Hope he's stuck in traffic and they catch his sorry a$s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJredskins00 Posted October 20, 2002 Author Share Posted October 20, 2002 They have a perimeter set up 90 miles away in Maryland...so it sounds like the police are doing their jobs, althought 90 miles seems a little too far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brave Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 They're trying to ensure that he didn't get through. I've heard they have stops at 15, 30 and 60 miles. I have to wonder if that's in both directions or if they jsut stopped Northbound. From the coverage it looks as though the southbound is relatively open. For all we know this guy could have scoped out a restaurant nearby and be sitting 5 or 10 minutes from the scene of the crime until things die down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OaktonSkins/BushFan Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 Originally posted by Brave They're trying to ensure that he didn't get through. I've heard they have stops at 15, 30 and 60 miles. I have to wonder if that's in both directions or if they jsut stopped Northbound. From the coverage it looks as though the southbound is relatively open. For all we know this guy could have scoped out a restaurant nearby and be sitting 5 or 10 minutes from the scene of the crime until things die down. Again, what about all of the secondary roads? What if they have a local safe house? What if this phuck just ran back through the woods to an overnight camp site? What if the white van is a decoy? I hope their "tactical plan" encompasses much more than the obvious and what is advertised on the media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJredskins00 Posted October 20, 2002 Author Share Posted October 20, 2002 If it is the sniper...which seems so likely right now...I'm sure he knew where he was going before he did this. Probably some low key area closeby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtandler Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 This is hitting pretty close to home. Ashland is on the north side of Richmond, I live on the south side. I've often stopped at the Exxon station in Spottsylvania where the man from Pennsylvania was killed last week and I've been to the Texaco where the 911 came from. It's become sort of a joke around here to ask anyone who's headed north on I-95 if he has made sure to fill his gas tank before leaving. Now, Richmond is not safe harbour any more. To be sure, you have a much better chance of being killed an a car wreck on the way to a gas station than you do of getting picked off by a sniper. It's still pretty spooky, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeSkin Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 Damn shame. Looks like they have no info from this shooting. They're still stopping white vans everywhere, big shock. For some reason I doubt he's driving one, and even if he is, his rifle isn't lying in the backseat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJredskins00 Posted October 20, 2002 Author Share Posted October 20, 2002 rtandler: I moved away from Midlothian in June 2000. I had lived there for 13 years. I lived in the Brandermill area if you are familar with that. Having lived there, I know how it is just a short drive away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtandler Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 We were neighbors, JJ. I live in Woodlake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OaktonSkins/BushFan Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 This reign of terror is a paramilitary operation and is being responded to by a civilian law enforcement agent. This is how a former FBI counter-terrorism agent on FoxNews has characterized the situation. He goes on to say that a military type response would include the deployment of several counter sniper teams, hundreds, if not more troops to blanket an area. I fear he is right. The conventional, civilian agencies are constrained by resources and law. It just seems like a less unrestrained and unencumbered response is necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brave Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 I'm guessing the authorities are not looking for a white van anymore but they keep that out there in the press so the perp might feel safe in another vehicle that they DO have a description on. This guy would have to be an idiot to be using a white van or truck at this point. Which brings to mind another point. Might he have access to an array of vehicles? Car salesman, auto mechanic? Something like that, maybe? who knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJredskins00 Posted October 20, 2002 Author Share Posted October 20, 2002 Yes, just a short drive across the reservior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJredskins00 Posted October 20, 2002 Author Share Posted October 20, 2002 They just reported that the shell casing found in the truck at the rental place in MD is not related to the sniper...there goes another potential lead in this case...:doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJredskins00 Posted October 20, 2002 Author Share Posted October 20, 2002 The only good news out of this is it sounds like the victim is going to make it. It's late and I'm going to bed. Hopefully when I wake up they will have caught this SOB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.