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Cnn.com has a brief story that a suspect has been arrested at a phone booth in Virginia. Does anyone at home who is watching TV have any more details???? thanks
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I'm watching the local news--the only reason I turned it on was because I heard helicopters flying overhead. There's a white van next to the phone booth, but it's not the type of van they've been looking for.
A witness is saying that men in bullet-proof clothing arrested a guy talking on the phone in the phone booth...
A witness is saying that men in bullet-proof clothing arrested a guy talking on the phone in the phone booth...
I found this on ABCnews.com:
Oct. 21 A heavily armed police team has taken into custody a man who was at the wheel of a white minivan identified as a suspect vehicle in the D.C.-area sniper killings.
The man was talking on a pay phone as he sat in the van at a gas station in Richmond, Va., and had been talking for just a couple of minutes before members of a SWAT team surrounded the vehicle and took him into custody.
Police are scheduled to have a news conference "shortly" . . .
Oct. 21 A heavily armed police team has taken into custody a man who was at the wheel of a white minivan identified as a suspect vehicle in the D.C.-area sniper killings.
The man was talking on a pay phone as he sat in the van at a gas station in Richmond, Va., and had been talking for just a couple of minutes before members of a SWAT team surrounded the vehicle and took him into custody.
Police are scheduled to have a news conference "shortly" . . .
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Not a lot is being said. Seems like a lot of assumption at this point. No official word.
One witness spoke a little, but seemed apprehensive about saying a lot. He said one passenger got out and willingly got out of the van and sat on the ground. No resistance. Said the suspect was not white or black. Latino first came to his mind.
I think CNN said a call was made by (ATF??) to the phone prior to the booth being surrounded.
One witness said he was driving to work and all of a sudden police cars were everywhere surrounding the booth. All the doors were open on the van.
Just lots of speculation at this time.
They are hauling away the van on a enclosed truck now.
One witness spoke a little, but seemed apprehensive about saying a lot. He said one passenger got out and willingly got out of the van and sat on the ground. No resistance. Said the suspect was not white or black. Latino first came to his mind.
I think CNN said a call was made by (ATF??) to the phone prior to the booth being surrounded.
One witness said he was driving to work and all of a sudden police cars were everywhere surrounding the booth. All the doors were open on the van.
Just lots of speculation at this time.
They are hauling away the van on a enclosed truck now.
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Could this be the pay phone the sniper left the number for in his note that police found??
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The witness is now saying something about hauling away a guy sitting on the ground--not sure if he's talking about the same guy or not. I believe they are.
They kicked the door open of the van--he was in the driver's seat talking on the phone, they came and got him through the driver's seat.
This is Henrico County, near Richmond. Now they're talking to Chief Moose.
They kicked the door open of the van--he was in the driver's seat talking on the phone, they came and got him through the driver's seat.
This is Henrico County, near Richmond. Now they're talking to Chief Moose.
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Chief Moose just gave a very cryptic statement--something about "we have made contact with the suspect and given him the message" something like that.
The police had surrounded the Exxon station before the phone call--could the sniper be this dumb--I'm having a hard time believing it.
The police had surrounded the Exxon station before the phone call--could the sniper be this dumb--I'm having a hard time believing it.
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One person in custody, BUT the police are saying they are going to "respond" to another message received. They could not respond to a message received by someone already in custody
This one is still unfolding...and I hope they get him one way or another.
This one is still unfolding...and I hope they get him one way or another.Kind of a stupid mistake for a guy who has eluded police this long dont you think?
I think it must be a set up.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/marylandshootings021021.html
I think it must be a set up.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/marylandshootings021021.html
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Here's what I've found on the web:
By ALLEN G. BREED
Associated Press Writer
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ Authorities searching for the Washington-area sniper surrounded a light-colored van Monday in the suburbs west of here.
Police in Hanover County, where the latest shooting took place, told reporters that the van had been stopped along Broad St. a major commercial street.
The white and gray van was at a service station, parked next to an outdoor phone.
"It was specific enough to be a suspect vehicle in all the cases," said Lt. Doug Goodman of the Hanover County Sheriff's Department.
A police officer at the scene said the van was a Plymouth Voyager with temporary Virginia tags. Broadcast reports said a man was taken into custody. The police officer, who would not give his name, declined to confirm that.
The development happened a day after authorities issued a plea to the person who left a note at the scene of a weekend shooting outside a Ponderosa restaurant in Ashland, a few miles north of Richmond.
In a brief but dramatic news conference late Sunday, police urged whoever left the note at the scene of Saturday's shooting to call them. The attack critically wounded a man.
"We do want to talk to you," said Charles Moose, police chief of Maryland's Montgomery County and a leader in the sniper investigation.
The message left at the scene was another sign that the shooting was related to the sniper attacks on 11 people, nine fatally, in the Washington area since Oct. 2. As in the previous shootings, the victim was felled by one shot.
A law enforcement source close to the investigation told The Associated Press that investigators believe the person who left the message is probably the sniper.
School officials in the Ashland and Richmond areas of Virginia decided to close Monday, keeping more than 200,000 public students out of class "based on the volume of parent and community concern."
In Ashland, Randolph-Macon College also announced it would cancel classes on Monday. The school, with 1,100 students, is about a mile from the latest shooting.
In other developments:
_ France has alerted Interpol about a French army deserter who is known as a marksman and is missing in North America. A Defense Ministry spokesman said there was speculation of a link to the sniper investigation.
_ Matthew M. Dowdy, who was accused of lying to police by describing a cream-colored van with a burned-out taillight at the scene of last week's shooting in Falls Church, was denied bail during a hearing Monday.
Surgeons succeeded Sunday night in removing the bullet from the 37-year-old man shot in Ashland and turned it over to investigators for testing.
The victim, whose name was not released, remained in critical condition early Monday after six hours of surgery. Doctors were cautiously optimistic about his recovery but said he would need more surgery.
"These are very serious injuries and he will have a bumpy road, but in the end, I think he will come through," Dr. Rao Ivatury, director of trauma at MCV Hospitals, said Monday. He said doctors had to remove his spleen and parts of his pancreas and stomach, adding that the bullet "almost ripped his stomach apart."
The nature of the message that investigators say was left at the Ashland shooting scene was unclear. But police had a message of his own to the sender:
"To the person who left us a message at the Ponderosa last night. You gave us a telephone number. We do want to talk to you. Call us at the number you provided. Thank you," Moose said.
Moose refused to elaborate or explain. But Officer Joyce Utter, a spokeswoman for Montgomery County police, later said Moose's statement "should make complete sense" to the person who left the message.
"That is the only person Chief Moose wants to talk to," she said.
The message contained significant text and was found in woods behind the restaurant, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Monday, quoting unidentified law enforcement sources. The report also said police have found more than one tarot card during the investigation. A tarot death card was found Oct. 7 outside a Bowie middle school where the sniper wounded a 13-year-old boy, a law enforcement source has said. It had the words "Dear Policeman, I am God" written on it.
If the latest attack is linked, it would also break the longest lull between shootings, about five days, and be the farthest point from Washington yet.
Previously, the longest distance from Washington that the sniper had struck was Spotsylvania County, about 50 miles south of Washington. Ashland is about 85 miles south of Washington.
Former FBI profiler Clinton Van Zandt said Saturday's shooting, if related, could show the killer's approach is changing in response to law enforcement tactics. For instance, reports last week that military surveillance planes would be used in the Washington suburbs probably prompted the sniper to move farther away, he said.
And since much had been made about the weekend lulls, "I think he reacted to that," Van Zandt said.
The most recent confirmed sniper attack was last Monday night's slaying of FBI analyst Linda Franklin outside a Home Depot store in Falls Church.
Police said the latest victim and his wife were traveling and stopped in Ashland for gas and food. His wife told authorities the shot sounded like a car backfiring and said her husband took about three steps before collapsing.
Through the hospital, the wife released a statement saying the caring and prayers she and her husband have received "have been a bright ray of hope and comfort."
"Please pray also for the attacker and that no one else is hurt," she added.
Residents were on edge in Ashland, a town of about 6,500. At the Virginia Center Commons mall, about seven miles from the shooting, a normally busy food court sat half-empty Sunday. Shopper Nancy Elrod said she almost had been too afraid to come.
"We certainly felt sorry about all the people up north who were nervous and now it's down here and we're nervous, too," said Elrod, 45.
By ALLEN G. BREED
Associated Press Writer
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ Authorities searching for the Washington-area sniper surrounded a light-colored van Monday in the suburbs west of here.
Police in Hanover County, where the latest shooting took place, told reporters that the van had been stopped along Broad St. a major commercial street.
The white and gray van was at a service station, parked next to an outdoor phone.
"It was specific enough to be a suspect vehicle in all the cases," said Lt. Doug Goodman of the Hanover County Sheriff's Department.
A police officer at the scene said the van was a Plymouth Voyager with temporary Virginia tags. Broadcast reports said a man was taken into custody. The police officer, who would not give his name, declined to confirm that.
The development happened a day after authorities issued a plea to the person who left a note at the scene of a weekend shooting outside a Ponderosa restaurant in Ashland, a few miles north of Richmond.
In a brief but dramatic news conference late Sunday, police urged whoever left the note at the scene of Saturday's shooting to call them. The attack critically wounded a man.
"We do want to talk to you," said Charles Moose, police chief of Maryland's Montgomery County and a leader in the sniper investigation.
The message left at the scene was another sign that the shooting was related to the sniper attacks on 11 people, nine fatally, in the Washington area since Oct. 2. As in the previous shootings, the victim was felled by one shot.
A law enforcement source close to the investigation told The Associated Press that investigators believe the person who left the message is probably the sniper.
School officials in the Ashland and Richmond areas of Virginia decided to close Monday, keeping more than 200,000 public students out of class "based on the volume of parent and community concern."
In Ashland, Randolph-Macon College also announced it would cancel classes on Monday. The school, with 1,100 students, is about a mile from the latest shooting.
In other developments:
_ France has alerted Interpol about a French army deserter who is known as a marksman and is missing in North America. A Defense Ministry spokesman said there was speculation of a link to the sniper investigation.
_ Matthew M. Dowdy, who was accused of lying to police by describing a cream-colored van with a burned-out taillight at the scene of last week's shooting in Falls Church, was denied bail during a hearing Monday.
Surgeons succeeded Sunday night in removing the bullet from the 37-year-old man shot in Ashland and turned it over to investigators for testing.
The victim, whose name was not released, remained in critical condition early Monday after six hours of surgery. Doctors were cautiously optimistic about his recovery but said he would need more surgery.
"These are very serious injuries and he will have a bumpy road, but in the end, I think he will come through," Dr. Rao Ivatury, director of trauma at MCV Hospitals, said Monday. He said doctors had to remove his spleen and parts of his pancreas and stomach, adding that the bullet "almost ripped his stomach apart."
The nature of the message that investigators say was left at the Ashland shooting scene was unclear. But police had a message of his own to the sender:
"To the person who left us a message at the Ponderosa last night. You gave us a telephone number. We do want to talk to you. Call us at the number you provided. Thank you," Moose said.
Moose refused to elaborate or explain. But Officer Joyce Utter, a spokeswoman for Montgomery County police, later said Moose's statement "should make complete sense" to the person who left the message.
"That is the only person Chief Moose wants to talk to," she said.
The message contained significant text and was found in woods behind the restaurant, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Monday, quoting unidentified law enforcement sources. The report also said police have found more than one tarot card during the investigation. A tarot death card was found Oct. 7 outside a Bowie middle school where the sniper wounded a 13-year-old boy, a law enforcement source has said. It had the words "Dear Policeman, I am God" written on it.
If the latest attack is linked, it would also break the longest lull between shootings, about five days, and be the farthest point from Washington yet.
Previously, the longest distance from Washington that the sniper had struck was Spotsylvania County, about 50 miles south of Washington. Ashland is about 85 miles south of Washington.
Former FBI profiler Clinton Van Zandt said Saturday's shooting, if related, could show the killer's approach is changing in response to law enforcement tactics. For instance, reports last week that military surveillance planes would be used in the Washington suburbs probably prompted the sniper to move farther away, he said.
And since much had been made about the weekend lulls, "I think he reacted to that," Van Zandt said.
The most recent confirmed sniper attack was last Monday night's slaying of FBI analyst Linda Franklin outside a Home Depot store in Falls Church.
Police said the latest victim and his wife were traveling and stopped in Ashland for gas and food. His wife told authorities the shot sounded like a car backfiring and said her husband took about three steps before collapsing.
Through the hospital, the wife released a statement saying the caring and prayers she and her husband have received "have been a bright ray of hope and comfort."
"Please pray also for the attacker and that no one else is hurt," she added.
Residents were on edge in Ashland, a town of about 6,500. At the Virginia Center Commons mall, about seven miles from the shooting, a normally busy food court sat half-empty Sunday. Shopper Nancy Elrod said she almost had been too afraid to come.
"We certainly felt sorry about all the people up north who were nervous and now it's down here and we're nervous, too," said Elrod, 45.
In my drive from Washington to Baltimore this morning, I saw two different white vans pulled over with several police cars at each van. I don't think these police officers are playing around at this point. They are going to nab anyone who seems the least bit suspicious.
I hope that what is being reported really is the sniper, but I'm having my doubts.
I hope that what is being reported really is the sniper, but I'm having my doubts.
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We're at home and watching this on TV.
The van was at a pay phone at an Exxon station at a VERY busy intersection in Richmond's west end (and three miles from DW Lauri's store!). They said SWAT teams and ATF arrested one person.
The van reportedly is a Plymouth minivan. What we saw on TV is that it's a minivan with a luggage rack on top, white with some greyish trim along the bottom, temporary VA tags, and bumper stickers on the back window. Lauri said one looks to her like a USMC logo sticker (I really couldn't tell) and the other to me looks like one of those Marine bumper stickers with a logo on the left and the word "MARINES" with crossed swords underneath that I've seen on other cars.
The van was at a pay phone at an Exxon station at a VERY busy intersection in Richmond's west end (and three miles from DW Lauri's store!). They said SWAT teams and ATF arrested one person.
The van reportedly is a Plymouth minivan. What we saw on TV is that it's a minivan with a luggage rack on top, white with some greyish trim along the bottom, temporary VA tags, and bumper stickers on the back window. Lauri said one looks to her like a USMC logo sticker (I really couldn't tell) and the other to me looks like one of those Marine bumper stickers with a logo on the left and the word "MARINES" with crossed swords underneath that I've seen on other cars.
I too can't believe he would be stupid enough to use the same pay phone that he gave the number to? Maybe he's from another country and didn't know the number could be traced. They also said a police was on the roof of the gas station, they think he was looking for another suspect.
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Binny, I wondered the same thing. It just seems too easy. Either the guy turned himself in, this is a decoy for something else, or it's not a "lone nut" and one of them (driver, associate, etc.) had remorse and turned himself in with another person still out there.
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I've been following the live coverage on tv also. I just talked with my husband's co-worker, who is the wife of a Fairfax County police officer. According to her, they are not sure they have the right guy. She did not have all of the details, but she said there "is something else going on that is much bigger than what we're watching on the news right now." I'm not sure exactly what that means, but the police must be following additional leads as well. Maybe something to do with the cryptic messages the news conferences have been sending. Perhaps we'll be updated on that soon.
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More info --
The van was sighted in a school parking lot near the scene. Witness said they saw two people of some type of ethnic descent in the van -- men in their 20s -- and they called 911. Police are looking for the person that made the report.
Interestingly enough, Lauri is good friends with several Henrico County police officers and may be able to get some dirt tomorrow.
The van was sighted in a school parking lot near the scene. Witness said they saw two people of some type of ethnic descent in the van -- men in their 20s -- and they called 911. Police are looking for the person that made the report.
Interestingly enough, Lauri is good friends with several Henrico County police officers and may be able to get some dirt tomorrow.
DC news station is now saying that a second person has been arrested. (Attributing story to CNN reports) Apparently the second person was at a separate location from the white van at the gas station.
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