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Here's the latest on CNN:
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (CNN) -- The sniper task force was investigating the shooting of a man Tuesday morning on a commuter bus in Montgomery County, Maryland, but it was too early to say whether it was connected to the sniper attacks that have left nine dead and three wounded in the Washington area.
Police said the victim, a man "approximately 40 years old," was standing on the top step platform of the bus when he was shot in the chest. The shooting was reported at 5:56 a.m. EDT in the Aspen Hill neighborhood of Silver Spring, an area close to the scenes of several of the previous sniper attacks.
Police in cars and helicopters converged on the scene, which is near a basketball court surrounded by woods. A commuter bus had been pulled over, and some roads were being blocked.
The victim was taken by ambulance to a nearby firehouse, where a Maryland state police chopper transported him to a trauma center in Bethesda.
A Montgomery County Fire Department spokesman said the victim originally was thought to have critical chest trauma, but authorities later determined his injuries were in the lower rib to stomach area.
The first six sniper shootings took place in Montgomery County. No one was injured in the first, when a window was shot out at a Michaels craft store in Aspen Hill on October 2. Five people were subsequently killed in the county October 2 and 3.
Meanwhile, law enforcement sources said a hand-written note found near the scene of Saturday's sniper shooting in Virginia threatened "more killing." One official said it contained a timeline for authorities to act, and if they failed, then there would be more attacks.
The note is undergoing analysis at an FBI lab for DNA, handwriting and other details that might help determine who wrote it. Sources said authorities were working under the assumption that it is from the sniper.
The discovery of the note behind the Ponderosa Steakhouse in Ashland, Virginia, prompted Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose on Sunday to make his first plea to the sniper to contact authorities.
Investigators believe the sniper called authorities Monday morning using a voice-disguising device, a source close to the investigation told CNN.
It was that phone call, this source said, that prompted Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose to urge the possible sniper to "call us back."
"The person you called could not hear everything that you said. The audio was unclear, and we want to get it right," Moose said at a news conference. (Full story)
Other developments
Authorities took two men into custody Monday morning near the area where a tipster's phone call originated in Richmond and questioned them as part of the sniper shootings probe. Federal law enforcement sources said no evidence was found linking either man to the shootings. One of the men was in a white van parked at a pay telephone at an Exxon gas station.
The shooting Saturday night in Virginia was linked to the other sniper cases after the bullet removed from the victim in surgery Monday morning was taken to a federal laboratory in Maryland for testing. The victim was in critical but stable condition at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond.
Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday he did not foresee the FBI taking over the sniper investigation, but he did not rule out the possibility. (Full story)
Public schools in 10 Richmond-area districts will be closed Tuesday, officials announced Monday. They include schools in the cities of Richmond, Petersburg, Hopewell and Colonial Heights, and in the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, Goochland, Dinwiddie and Prince George. Five of those districts also were shut down Monday -- affecting about 150,000 students -- because of parental and community concern following Saturday's shooting in Ashland, north of Richmond.
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (CNN) -- The sniper task force was investigating the shooting of a man Tuesday morning on a commuter bus in Montgomery County, Maryland, but it was too early to say whether it was connected to the sniper attacks that have left nine dead and three wounded in the Washington area.
Police said the victim, a man "approximately 40 years old," was standing on the top step platform of the bus when he was shot in the chest. The shooting was reported at 5:56 a.m. EDT in the Aspen Hill neighborhood of Silver Spring, an area close to the scenes of several of the previous sniper attacks.
Police in cars and helicopters converged on the scene, which is near a basketball court surrounded by woods. A commuter bus had been pulled over, and some roads were being blocked.
The victim was taken by ambulance to a nearby firehouse, where a Maryland state police chopper transported him to a trauma center in Bethesda.
A Montgomery County Fire Department spokesman said the victim originally was thought to have critical chest trauma, but authorities later determined his injuries were in the lower rib to stomach area.
The first six sniper shootings took place in Montgomery County. No one was injured in the first, when a window was shot out at a Michaels craft store in Aspen Hill on October 2. Five people were subsequently killed in the county October 2 and 3.
Meanwhile, law enforcement sources said a hand-written note found near the scene of Saturday's sniper shooting in Virginia threatened "more killing." One official said it contained a timeline for authorities to act, and if they failed, then there would be more attacks.
The note is undergoing analysis at an FBI lab for DNA, handwriting and other details that might help determine who wrote it. Sources said authorities were working under the assumption that it is from the sniper.
The discovery of the note behind the Ponderosa Steakhouse in Ashland, Virginia, prompted Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose on Sunday to make his first plea to the sniper to contact authorities.
Investigators believe the sniper called authorities Monday morning using a voice-disguising device, a source close to the investigation told CNN.
It was that phone call, this source said, that prompted Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose to urge the possible sniper to "call us back."
"The person you called could not hear everything that you said. The audio was unclear, and we want to get it right," Moose said at a news conference. (Full story)
Other developments
Authorities took two men into custody Monday morning near the area where a tipster's phone call originated in Richmond and questioned them as part of the sniper shootings probe. Federal law enforcement sources said no evidence was found linking either man to the shootings. One of the men was in a white van parked at a pay telephone at an Exxon gas station.
The shooting Saturday night in Virginia was linked to the other sniper cases after the bullet removed from the victim in surgery Monday morning was taken to a federal laboratory in Maryland for testing. The victim was in critical but stable condition at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond.
Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday he did not foresee the FBI taking over the sniper investigation, but he did not rule out the possibility. (Full story)
Public schools in 10 Richmond-area districts will be closed Tuesday, officials announced Monday. They include schools in the cities of Richmond, Petersburg, Hopewell and Colonial Heights, and in the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, Goochland, Dinwiddie and Prince George. Five of those districts also were shut down Monday -- affecting about 150,000 students -- because of parental and community concern following Saturday's shooting in Ashland, north of Richmond.
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