Re: Pretty goofy, Gus. If the killer lives here, he shoots here. Simple enough.
Probe stretches to West Coast
Muhammad once served at Fort Lewis, Washington, about 14 miles from the Tacoma duplex searched by federal agents Wednesday afternoon, according to Defense Department sources.
The mayor of Bellingham, Washington, which is north of Tacoma near the Canadian border, said the FBI and local police had searched Bellingham High School in relation to two men -- one older, one younger -- who lived in the city nine months ago.
Mayor Mark Asmundson told KING-TV the pair was "of interest to police" when they lived there and generated interest again Wednesday. He said the men are not related and that one is not a U.S. national. A spokeswoman for the FBI in Seattle had no comment.
Aerial video of the Tacoma house search showed a law enforcement officer grid off the back yard with yellow tape and saw off a large tree trunk at its roots. The stump was wrapped in plastic and taken away. A backhoe could be seen.
Sources said agents wanted the stump because they believe it might have been used for target practice and might contain potential ballistics evidence.
Agents also were apparently using metal detectors in a search of the premises. The sources said authorities were looking for shell casings.
Martha Tebbenkamp, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Seattle, said a joint task force of ATF and FBI agents were "on site" because of a "a link to events in the Washington, D.C., area."
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cnn.com
About 3,000 miles away from the sniper's hunting area (DC, Maryland).... Pretty goofy, huh? |
