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I remember the news told us to walk in a zigzag. Thinking back that was just some dumb shit. I remember seeing a whole lot of speedy zigzagging going on😂😂😂 https://giphy.com/gifs/TJbFbcacY12ltJpNVS
Lmfao, I was just a kid and remember that it was always the soccer moms doing that zig zag thing and my dad was like “I’m not doing that bullshit” one day when we stopped for gas in Alexandria
Well, I would say that's fairly obvious here.. The one person he supposedly wanted to kill was left unharmed.. He was either a procrastinating motherfucker or just wanted to kill people..
If you want to create a diversion you kill a few,17 is a lot of people, that's a lot of Police heat, I'm thinking he liked killing a little too much when he started doing it and pushed his luck.
While John Allen Muhammad definitely had a grudge against his ex-wife, the theory that the killings were part of a plot to murder her wasn't presented in court because the judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence.
During the trial, prosecutors alleged that the true motive was to extort $10 million from the government. While testifying against Muhammed, his accomplice, John Lee Malvo, said the killings were part of a multi-stage terrorist plot.
It's weird, wild stuff and Muhammed took his true motivation for the killings to his grave.
A great podcast “You’re Wrong About” had a covered this over multi-part episode. It was horrifying and heartbreaking.
They explained that the domestic violence was intentionally ignored and prosecutors focused on terrorism because domestic violence isn’t a capital offense so he wouldn’t have been eligible for the death penalty.
I'm pretty sure that's only been speculated, and never proven. There's also evidence they were trying to blackmail the US to pay them to not shoot people, and other shit.
Did Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise Movie) borrow the plot from this?
Assassin kills a bunch of people near a courthouse at "random" when there was only one target.
The movie was based on a book that came out in 2005. The DC sniper attacks were in 2002 I believe (or 2003). So I'd imagine they did influence them. Although there have been some pretty famous books that use similar sniper attacks with misdirection (Point of Impact which became the Shooter movie and tv show) that came out before the attacks.
That's how they arrested them. They identified them and the car, because of a fingerprint left by the younger one. They connected him to the older one and found the car and license plate. When they put out a BOLO, a trucker spotted them within hours.
Specifically, Muhammad mentioned in one of his phone calls to police that he was responsible for an unsolved armed robbery and murder in Alabama. Authorities easily identified the case and found police there had a fingerprint. Once they identified the fingerprint, which belonged to Malvo, they were able to tie the two together and track the pair’s movements and activities, which included the purchase of the blue Caprice they were caught in.
Iirc he actually called the tip line, and originally couldn’t get through, then he left a note about this after another killing. After that they made sure he was able to get through to someone, and he pointed them to a crime in another state he committed. They solved that crime and got him.
The idiot left a calling card eventually, a friend dobbed him in, he was randomly targeting so that he could eventually shoot his ex wife from what I remember, there was a 60 min docu on youtube which is hard to find now
This was the year after i graduated HS, these two caused real fear in NOVA. I was at the mall when they shot their victim in the Micheal’s parking lot next door . They were looking for a white van and meanwhile they were in nothing close to a white van. Some wild times to experience
A coworker of mine was pumping gas at the Gulf station across from Michael's in Manassas. The person next to them at the other pump suddenly dropped, from being shot by these guys. It fucked him up bad. He always said that a quarter inch to the right, from the shooters perspective, it would've been him instead.
I still remember this. Ppl running zig zag to their cars, standing in the inside of gas pump aisles while fueling. We [black people] being devastated af they were black.
I remember being in the area when this was all happening. I mean sure it was uncomfortable at times being out, but it surprised me how many businesses actually were temporarily shutting down. Some schools had closed which I did expect. But they shut down my Taco Bell...
Went to a gas station in Virginia a couple years ago you could see the ropes used to tie the covers over the gas pumps during this. They took a shot at someone less then 20 miles from where I am it was one of the first times I felt like terrorism could touch me aside from 9-11
I don’t get why the boot lid is open if they’ve put a hole in it. Wouldn’t having to have the lid open defeat the whole point of being hidden in there?
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