#Sniper roadblock extract driver#

Then there were the rumors that started circulating.

And my parents, like parents are, seemed to call a lot more frequently during that three week period. The one think I still remember about that night is hearing police car sirens going off well into the night. The shooting at the Home Depot hit me particularly close to home for me since it occurred about a five minute drive from where I was living at the time. Parking lots started to feel like points of vulnerability, and it became hard to know who exactly you could trust. After two men were killed while pumping gas, it became instinct to check your surroundings even if it was the middle of the afternoon when you’d think nobody would dare pull off something like this.

Once it became clear that there was someone out there that was randomly targeting people, it was hard not to look around every single time you got out of your car. It’s kind of hard to describe what it was like to live in Metro D.C.

#Sniper roadblock extract driver#

Two days after the bus driver was killed, the saga came to an end when police took into custody two men, John Allen Mohammned and Lee Boyd Malvo, as they hid out in a Rest Area off of Interstate 70 in western Maryland. The police knew from early on that all of these shootings were connected thanks to ballistics testing. Then on October 23, a bus driver in Montgomery County, Maryland was shot to death while driving his route. Five days later, another man died from a gunshot wound in a parking lot outside a Ponderosa Steakhouse in Ashland, Virginia, which is nearly inside the Richmond City limits and far outside the location of the other shootings. On Octber 14th, Linda Franklin, an FBI analyst, was shot while loading packages in her car in a Home Depot parking lot in Falls Church, Virginia. Two days after that, another man was shot outside a gas station in Spotsylanvia County, Virginia. On October 9th, a man named Dean Barnett was shot to death while putting gas in his car at a Sunoco station in Manassas, Virginia. Three days later, a 13 year old boy was shot outside a Middle School in suburban Maryland. The day after that, a woman was wounded in a parking lot at a strip mall in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The next day, in the course of a two hour period, four people were shot dead in various locations in Maryland’s D.C. That first shooting, at a Michael’s craft store in in Aspen Hill, Maryland only blew out a few windows, but a few hours later a man named James Randolph was killed in the parking lot of a grocery store in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Ten years ago today, specifically at about 5:21pm, the first shots were fired in what turned out to be a shooting spree that lasted 22 days and resulted in the deaths of ten people and the wounding of three others.