OT. What is going on? the FBI can't find our homegrown terrorist whackos, can we trust them to keep us safe from outside terrorists?
Minivan sought in sniper case
By MATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press
miami.com
Police Investigators from state and federal agencies move into position outside the Sunoco gas station where a man was killed Wednesday. WIN McNAMEE, Reuters
MANASSAS, Va. - Police hunting the Washington-area sniper searched Thursday for a white minivan seen leaving the scene of a seventh fatal shooting in the past week.
Police were trying to determine if Wednesday night's slaying at a gas station in northern Virginia was linked to the sniper. Dean Harold Meyers, 53, of Gaithersburg, Md., was gunned down moments after filling his tank.
Two men were seen in a white van shortly after the sniper slayings began eight days ago in the Washington suburbs. The vehicle described by witnesses to Wednesday's shooting described it as a white "panel truck."
"It's a minivan but instead of windows around the side, it's solid. We don't know about windows in the back," Kim Chinn, a Prince William County police spokeswoman, said Thursday at a news briefing.
She stressed that the Virginia killing had not yet been definitely linked to the eight earlier sniper shootings, six of them fatal, since Oct. 2. |
