killings in montogmery county

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Oh, and jimmy, when its discovered that its two white guys, I hope you're prepared to apologize to "Arabs"

[The Emperor Fabulous]

• 6:04 p.m. Wednesday -- A 55-year-old white man was killed in the parking lot of a Shoppers Food Warehouse at 2201 Randolph Road in Wheaton. Police went to the scene, but efforts to revive the man using CPR failed. The Washington Post has identified the victim as James Martin. A security tape from a camera that monitors the lot was turned over to police.

• 7:41 a.m. Thursday -- A Hispanic man riding a lawn mower was killed on the 11000 block of Rockville Pike at Fitzgerald Auto Mall near White Flint Mall.

• 8:12 a.m. -- A black male cabdriver in his forties was shot while pumping gas at a Mobil station in the Aspen Hill area, near the intersection of Aspen Hill Road and Connecticut Avenue. He died at the scene. Before the incident, he entered the gas station, where he was a regular customer, used the restroom and bought a lottery ticket.

• 8:37 a.m. -- A Hispanic woman in her forties died after being shot in the head while sitting on a bench outside a post office at 3802 International Drive next to the Leisure World retirement community in Silver Spring.

• 9:58 a.m. -- A white woman around the age of 35 was shot dead at a Shell gas station at 10515 Connecticut Avenue in Kensington, at the intersection of Knowles and Connecticut Avenues. She was vacuuming her minivan.


So we have only one white male. Very probable (if there is a motive other than killing) that this could be a messedup white guy thing

[centrifuge]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous

Maybe it is terrorism, but I doubt its on the scale of international terrorism. I mean, why shoot down an old lady from a retirement home? (then again, why shoot any of these people?)

Exactly, IMHO, it's not international terrorism, maybe domestic terrorism, but that depends on your definitions...

Anyway you look at it however, the shooter seems to have no good reason for doing what "he's" doing, its either a nut job having flashbacks, some extremely disturbed kids, or just some other disturbed individuals, that decided to make the news in one of the most horrific ways possible.

[centrifuge]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
So we have only one white male. Very probable (if there is a motive other than killing) that this could be a messedup white guy thing

Why do you believe that its only one white male? Because of the victims sexes/races?

[Capt Dizle]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
Oh, and jimmy, when its discovered that its two white guys, I hope you're prepared to apologize to "Arabs"

I will apologize in advance. However, I see no problem with getting on the road and looking for the van, and I would of course be armed with a weapon and a cellphone. And it would fly in the face of logic to fail to scrutinized Arabs.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
And it would fly in the face of logic to fail to scrutinized Arabs.

People that look like you are the type that would be most likely to commit this crime.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
I will apologize in advance. However, I see no problem with getting on the road and looking for the van, and I would of course be armed with a weapon and a cellphone. And it would fly in the face of logic to fail to scrutinized Arabs.

No it wouldn't. The overwhelming majority of crimes like this aren't perpetrated by Arabs. It would make no sense to single out Arabs in these shootings. You're just projecting your anti-Arab attitudes on a situation that is, as far as anyone knows, completely unrelated to Arabs.

[Capt Dizle]

I am reacting to this incident as a possible terrorist incident due to its unusual nature, proximity to Washington, and because the United States government has told it citizens to be on guard.

I don't have any bias against Arabs. It just so happens that Arabs have declared jihad against my country. If Eskimos declare vendetta against my country and kill 3,000 of my fellow citizens I will be on the look out for them too. And if you don't like it you can go blow a goat.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
I am reacting to this incident as a possible terrorist incident due to its unusual nature, proximity to Washington, and because the United States government has told it citizens to be on guard.

I don't have any bias against Arabs. It just so happens that Arabs have declared jihad against my country. If Eskimos declare vendetta against my country and kill 3,000 of my fellow citizens I will be on the look out for them too. And if you don't like it you can go blow a goat.

So, do you get your gun and hunt for Arabs everytime someone is killed in Washington? There are 300 murders a year there, actually INSIDE Washington. Why don't you react the same to this?

There is nothing here indicating it is remotely linked to terrorism. This certainly isn't a typical terrorist M.O. However, crazy white guys do this kind of crap all the time--go on bezerk killing sprees. If you want to profile anyone, I suggest go hunting down middle-aged white men. Oopsie, then you'd have to look in the mirror...

[Felch]

As far as important facilities in MoCo, there are a lot. My hometown of Germantown had the Department of Energy, NIST and NIH are nearby, along with a whole mess of biotech firms and stuff. However, their importance is relative, and I doubt it has anything at all to do with that.

My mom called, one of the shootings was a few blocks from the school where she teaches. Apparently cops are pulling over lots of vehicles on the highways, just to check for the people.

It's bad, but you are severly over-reacting jimmy. MoCo has no real important targets to hit, just thousands of petty government drones. And it doesn't even look like they're doing that.

Besides, you're idea that this is a diversion makes no real sense. Why would terrorists do anything to heighten security before they carry out an attack?

[ThePantaloonDog]

There's nothing in Montgomery COuntry except for suburbs. Chances are it is just some suburban guy gone nuts.

[chequita guevara]

This sounds less like terrorism and more like somone's hunting humans. Shades of Son of Sam.

jimmytick is so full of **** it's unbelievable.

[Capt Dizle]

This sounds nothing like Son of Sam. It might a form of wilding by young military kids or someone really put out with the Federal government (aka milita group). But in these times the prudent course of action is to treat it as a potential terrorist action by default because of its peculiar nature.

[Capt Dizle]

Serial killers do not kill in this manner. They kill in a very personal way. These were medium range shootings, clean and impersonal. Also done in a manner to leave little evidence outside of the possible eyewitnesses. Eyewitness evidence is considered much less reliable than physical evidence. One must be open to the possibility that the perps may be or have been policemen. Or FBI/CIA.

Or foreign intelligence/spooks.

[DanS]

Man, Jimmy. You've got an overactive imagination.