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-The judge says...

-19-11, I have one down. There's blood all over.

-I've never been beside somebody that died right in front of you.

-Hello, this is a call from...

-Lee Malvo.

-...an inmate at the Virginia Department of Corrections,

Red Onion State Prison.

-41-year-old man, John Muhammad,

and a Jamaican-born teenager.

-Sniper team that terrorized the Washington metropolitan area.

-19-11 I have one down. There's blood all over.

I'm at the Mobil gas station...

- the most intense manhunts in American history.

-The serial killer hunting down random citizens.

-We have fear levels here that I think are higher

than they were after September 11th.

-Let me go! Let me go past!

-President Bush is talking about fighting Iraq,

and we have a warzone right here in his own country.

-Oh, oh, oh man, oh man.

-Let's check in with Kristy King in Montgomery County

where they're investigating a string

of shootings this morning. Kristy, what's the latest?

-Police don't have much to go on at this point,

but at a couple of different locations,

there have been witnesses describing a white box truck...

-I have a goal in my mind,

you know, to cross the United States.

I am from Honduras.

I came to the U.S. illegally.

Go through all those horrible things on the way here,

so I start going to church, and I met Lori in there.

She have a really nice heart, and I love her.

After we get married that was the first thing what we want,

you know, to have a kid.

-I see you.

-We were so excited.

We decided to name her Jocelin.

I was so happy.

That morning, the leaves were changing color,

everything was beautiful.

Lori was asleep.

I give her a kiss and leave to go to work.

-Police don't know what is happening,

they are trying to string this together,

and they are asking everyone, please,

look out for this truck, call police if you see it.

And they're quite upset.

Some of these officers are holding back tears

as they're beginning to assess what's going on,

and then having to relay...

-So I'm driving up towards Connecticut Avenue,

and I hear someone calling for help.

I look over to my left and I see this woman

laying on the ground.

She looked like what she had was a seizure,

and she started bleeding from her mouth.

So I immediately called 911.

-I have an ICU background,

and I immediately ran to her.

I then decided to go ahead and do chest compressions,

I couldn't do mouth to mouth or anything

because she had so much blood coming out of her mouth.

At that point, a pregnant woman ran up to me and she said,

"How can I help you? Tell me what you need me to do."

And I said, "I need an ambulance,

I've called for an ambulance, I don't understand,

the firehouse is right there. Why have they not sent anybody?"

And she said, "I'm on it."

And she took off running down Connecticut Avenue,

very pregnant, to get somebody to come help.

-There was just people in uniforms and guns everywhere,

and we were like, "What is all of this?"

I hadn't turned on the news that day,

so I was completely unaware.

Later, when I said to my husband,

you know, "I did CPR on a woman that I think hit her head,"

he called me back and said, "Maria, that woman was shot.

There's like some crazy person driving down

Connecticut Avenue shooting people.

Like, you need to get out of there."

-There was another victim being brought in who had been shot.

She had an entry in the back with no exit.

Then, when we checked the X-ray,

left chest that was full of blood.

There was no vital signs that were detected.

She was, uh, dead upon arrival.

Beautiful woman.

And of course, doesn't look anything like the woman

I treated.

So, I hope that this is what people remember.

-The people who work here at Shell, the owner tells me,

he thought that he heard an electrical explosion...

-I got the call from the detective.

And he said, "Are you Nelson Rivera?"

I said, "Yes I am."

And he said, "Are you Lori's husband?"

I said, "Yes."

Um.

He said, he... "She just got shot.

Lori got shot, and... And she passed away."

In that moment... just a big, you know, cold and hot

and all kind of feelings.

Detective was waiting for me.

You know, to walk there, and go see where her blood was.

Why?

Why did that happen to Lori?

You know, and where is Jocelin?

And they told me, "No, there was not a baby in the...

In the car."

15 minutes before,

Lori dropped her off at the daycare.

That was a big relief.

What am I going to tell Jocelin?

How am I going to tell her this?

Her mom is not coming back.

She's not going to see her mom again.

How are you going to explain?

Who did this?

Why?

"We're investigating."

You know, that was their answer.

"We don't know. We don't know."

-When a shooting occurred down at the Shell station

at Kensington,

one of the things I did, amongst all the phone calls

and so forth, is I called my mother.

I called my mother because...

excuse me...

she would go there, and that's her gas station.

I told her not to go.

To, um, to stay home.

-Five people shot and killed,

one by one within a 1-mile radius in a span of 16 hours.

It started at 6:00 last night,

the last murder happened at 10:00 this morning.

-It's almost like he's a ghost.

He keeps moving from one incident to the other

and we have nothing on who he is or what he looks like.

These people were doing everyday,

random things that everyone else would do,

that were totally innocent.

And so, there was no place to position our people in advance.

We've got the helicopter up, officers are looking,

but what are they looking for?

-Is there any possibility that this is a... a hate crime?

-You're the police, you're supposed to know,

you're supposed to find them,

you're supposed to protect us,

and we couldn't do any of that.

We have found no common denominator

as of yet between the victims.

It was a hopeless feeling and a helpless feeling.

-Is it possible the shots were fired from the vehicle?

-Excuse me, sorry. Um...

We don't know whether shots were fired from a vehicle

or where they're actually fired from,

close range or long distance.

-I'm thinking it's going to be a man,

he's going to be all sweaty,

he's going to have most of his clothes off.

-He's the Chief of Police here in Montgomery County, Maryland.

-He's going to have a gun,

and either he's going to shoot himself

or a police officer's going to have to shoot him,

and we're going to have the classic suicide by cop.

Hopefully we can get this resolved

before it becomes a state of panic.

Nothing like this has ever happened in Montgomery County.

This is a very safe community.

Our homicide rate just increased by 25% in one day.

We're working it, we're doing everything we can,

but this is unlike anything we've ever seen.

This is not what happens here.

-There are bottlenecks on 95 north,

and I think those are going to continue as police

keep looking for this white vehicle.

-We're looking at some substantial delays,

395 delays here from the city cam.

Will begin north of the Pentagon,

but it is having a major, major impact at this hour.

-Halfway through the shooting spree,

John Muhammad was sitting in the locker room

facing the lockers, quietly.

And a staff member at the Y said, "Are you alright?"

and the response was, "No, I'm not. I'm not."

-John was complicated.

The only thing he told me when we met was that he was single

and looking for someone to settle down with.

And he asked me was I seeing anybody, I said, "No."

He said, "Well you are now."

He had a beautiful smile.

-John was a ladies' man.

He loved the girls.

And, some of the ladies loved him.

-He made me feel special.

He made me feel that I was important to him.

That's something I hadn't felt before.

-Um, he started having an affair,

so things kind of went downhill from there, and we split up.

-And he got a divorce, and we got married.

John was a person that wanted someone to love him,

wanted someone to take care of him,

wanted someone to understand him.

And as soon as you got to that point, he'd switch.

"No, I'm good, I don't need that,

I'm stronger than that. I'm okay."

He didn't want to feel vulnerable to anybody.

He didn't want to appear to be weak.

Everybody needed him but he didn't need anybody.

That's who he wanted to be.

He wanted to leave Louisiana. He wanted to see the world.

That was why he joined the Army.

-The Armed Forces of the United States

began an operation at the direction of the President.

-The President of the United States,

he has certainly demonstrated

that he is not afraid to pull the trigger.

Today he decided to launch Desert Storm.

-I did not want him to go to war because I loved him.

-We're in the Gulf because of the brutality of Saddam Hussein.

We're dealing with a dangerous dictator

who has weapons of mass destruction.

-I believe something happened in Desert Storm.

I don't know what.

I don't know what happened.

But whatever happened, changed him.

-All of us have innocence,

and we venture off of this road of life,

we mutate, things change.

We want to understand why.

Not for him, but for us.

-General Schwarzkopf says allied air attacks

have left Iraq's air defenses in disarray.

-Five random murders today in Maryland.

Five people who got up today to get the paper,

water the lawn, pick up the mail... shot down.

-We were aware of the shootings that were going on

in Montgomery county.

We just felt, well, we were kind of lucky,

nothing like that was going on in D.C.

Until this particular shooting happened.

The victim was 72 years of age, neighborhood guy.

He had called his wife and told his wife

that he was on his way home.

I met a witness on the lot here

who had told me that after hearing the gunshot,

he observed what he described

as a dark-colored Chevy Caprice

slowly driving west on Kalmia.

He said what drew his attention to that vehicle

was the fact that the lights were off.

All the other shootings, people are saying

that it's a white panel van.

We did a write up that I later took up

to the command center in Montgomery County,

and I tried to let the officers and command staff

there know that unlike the lookout that they had,

I had a lookout for a dark Chevy Caprice...

I just felt like they didn't... They didn't believe...

what my witnesses had told me.

That's my feeling.

You know.

We had it.

I mean, we had it.

-Police on alert after a deadly rampage.

Five victims slain randomly, all within 15 hours.

In a community paralyzed by fear,

knowing the assailants are still at large.

-A shocking series of shootings in what is normally a quiet area

outside the nation's capital.

-We can make no sense out of this string of killings

we deal with tonight.

-That night, Jocelin said, "Where is Mommy?"

And I say, you know, "Mommy went to heaven,

and she is going to watch you from there."

I didn't find another way to tell her, you know.

-Daddy!

I was 3 years old when she died.

I don't... I don't remember anything about it.

The only thing I remember is her funeral.

Um, I remember her in a white dress.

I kind of thought she was like Snow White,

that's what I remember.

So, I thought, you know, you'd give her a kiss

and she'd wake up, and it didn't work.

I think about, just the way things could have been.

The future that could have happened.

-Why you pick Lori?

Why?

Um, I know I'm not going to have an answer

'cause there is not answer.

There is not. Answer for that.

-In a suburban Maryland county just north of Washington, D.C.,

what appears to be, home grown terror.

Five people have been shot

and killed apparently at random within a few hours

and within a relatively small area.

Montgomery County borders the nation's capital,

and so the anxiety today was widespread.

-Someone is killing people

who are simply going about their lives.

-It is bone chilling when you think

of what would cause someone to do something quite like this.

-He's bleeding real bad.

-Well, I'm telling you it was a gun shot

because that's what we heard.

-19-11, I have one down. There's blood all over.

-We've got a major crime scene here.

Witnesses said they did hear a shot.

-At this point it has been so random,

and uh, we've not been able to piece anything to the puzzle.

Does that mean we're inadequate?

Does that mean I'm not doing my job?

I don't think so.

Not a day goes by that I don't think about this investigation

It was by far the largest thing to ever happen in my, uh,

law enforcement career.

And I'm forever disappointed that we couldn't keep

the victims from becoming victims.

It does lie heavy on the heart.

You know, in my head, and in my heart.

-How is it possible that you have five separate shootings,

and so few good witnesses?

-I'm not going to comment on it any further.

I'm gonna go up to the command truck right now,

um, and get more information.

This case was trial by fire.

The investigators were frustrated.

There was no video footage,

they didn't have any witness information,

they had nothing additional to go on.

The sighting of the white van was the only information we had.

-The investigation now hinges on just one eyewitness

who reported seeing a white truck

with possibly two people inside fleeing

the scene of one of the shootings.

-What are the chances that the suspects are still

in that white box truck?

-Well, we're certainly um, moving along as if they were.

We're not going to eliminate anything.

-Chief Moose, he didn't look like he liked the press.

Very early on they put out the report

about the box shaped truck.

And in this town, which is the most deliverable town

in the world, everybody has a white box shaped truck.

And so, but what happened is that people were all looking

at the box shaped truck and then it's like,

"There's a box shaped truck. There's a box shaped truck."

-Do you realize how many white panel vans there are?

Really, when you look back on it, that was, in a nutshell,

what was wrong with this investigation.

The first night, in Washington, D.C.,

there were witness descriptions of a Caprice...

from the very get-go.

-A 72-year-old man was shot to death

on a Washington, D.C., street corner at...

-Adding to the insecurity,

police now investigating whether a murder last night

in the nation's capital could be related.

-I saw like a car moved off from behind these trees here,

and it just moved off slowly without the lights on.

And I just observed the car. It was a Caprice.

A dark-colored Caprice.

-Okay, in terms of whether or not that turns out

to be a mistake,

I, uh, want to say that no lead is a mistake.

When people tell you something, you should listen.

So, if enough people, or if one person says

it was a white van speeding away,

I think we should listen to that.

-Nobody saw a shot fired from a white box truck

It's just what someone saw driving away.

The only evidence we really had

in the beginning was the ballistics.

-That Thursday, we worked all day and halfway into the night

receiving fired bullet evidence,

uh, and trying to identify what we had.

-I am here to look at bullets and cartridge cases,

that are recovered from a scene or a body,

and try to determine whether they were fired

from a particular gun.

-All firearms have unique microscopic marks produced

during the manufacturing process.

[Gunshots]

The bullet travels down the barrel,

and it actually picks up

all the microscopic markings of the barrel of the firearm.

What we're trying to do is compare the bullets

from the first set of shootings

and see if they came from the same gun.

So we're looking at these microscopic

marks, and we will go around

till we come up with what looks to be an identification.

What does that tell me?

Well, I'm relatively sure that these were,

to the exclusion of all other firearms,

that these were fired from the same firearm.

I was at the press conference on the Friday.

We identified a caliber.

Now we could come up with a list of firearms

that could have fired these projectiles.

-Based on preliminary forensics examinations

by our national laboratory,

we have laid out four samples of ammunition.

This is a, um, .223 caliber ammunition round.

It was a very common round,

there wasn't anything unique about it.

It can be used by the military, some use it for target shooting,

some use it for shooting small animals.

We had an idea of the type of firearm that may have been used.

Didn't know exactly, so we needed the public's help.

This particular firearm, is a Colt AR-15.

This is a model that people in the United States,

if they are not prohibited, can legally possess.

Someone who is very proficient can be accurate,

people who shoot a lot, people who have trained

to shoot these types of weapons at long range,

would have the capabilities.

-Today, Maryland Police say the serial killer

is a skilled marksman

hunting down random citizens with a powerful rifle,

which may explain why there are no eyewitnesses

to the five shootings in broad daylight since Wednesday.

-We have anxiety levels here, fear levels here,

that I think are higher than they were after September 11th

and after the anthrax attack.

-Terrorism, is a very difficult thing that we are very new

to experiencing on this level on our shores.

-As we're using war as a solution to terrorism,

so you know, the adage of violence begets violence,

and then Bin Laden was also trained by our military.

-We were on high alert.

Our fire chief had put out a directive

regarding the safety of our personnel.

I guess it was maybe one of those situations

where you don't think it's going to happen in your area.

-Right here, in the first parking space

behind the vehicle, the victim was laying.

We didn't know if there was going to be another shot fired.

We didn't really know if the scene was secure.

She had an entrance wound that was below her

right shoulder blade,

and she had an exit wound just under her right breast.

The rifle bullet's a very high velocity round, uh

and when it hits the body, it tends to break apart.

So, anything in the trajectory of the round

tends to be destroyed.

-Her injuries were critical, life-threatening injuries.

-As police continue searching for the killer, or killers,

responsible for five murders in Montgomery County,

there has been another shooting today,

this time in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

-Ballistics are back on the shooting

that injured a 43-year-old woman in Fredericksburg.

-The round that we collected there is in fact a match...

-Authorities have now linked Friday's

shooting of a woman in Virginia, who remains in serious condition

to the six fatal shootings in Maryland and Washington.

-Fredericksburg is only an hour and a half at most south.

Before the victim had hardly hit the ground,

that shooter could be back on 95,

heading north toward Montgomery County again.

- suggests that they have moved to Virginia

for a period of time, and now we don't know where they are.

-Tonight, the manhunt still underway,

yet police admit they still don't know

what kind of person they are looking for,

there are so few clues.

-The person or the people that are doing this,

rethink what you're doing, turn yourself in to law enforcement.

- may strike again. Now to Iraq, as President...

-This person won't stop on his own, uh,

he likes the shooting. He likes what he's doing...

-This is the finger of God.

-You can determine life and death,

this... this is emotional heroin.

And this person won't stop until he's caught or killed.

-Tonight, some good news about the most recent victim,

the woman from Virginia well enough

to be released from the hospital.

-There has been a shooting at a school this morning.

A child has been shot.

-I guess it's getting to be really, really personal now

-The gunman reportedly has left a message for police.

-A Tarot card that law enforcement sources

say shows the figure of death.

-A message on the card reads...

-"Call me God. Do not release to the press."

We believed that we were talking to the shooter.

You just feel like you let the families down.

We had 'em and my mistake.

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