In something very similar to the Homicide episodes Sniper, there's a sniper in Montgomery County, MD, with apparently random shootings.

I hope the cops catch this b**tard soon.

Any theories as to what type of person we're dealing with here?

My theory, since this s.o.b. seems to be living by the Sniper's creed of 'One shot, one kill', that our perp is ex-law enforcement, perhaps ex-military or ex-CIA.

As for this whole new thing with the Tarot card, call me crazy, but I think this is just to throw the FBI's profilers off track.

My theory is that there was other evidence, and they cops released the tarot card thing to throw the sniper off.

I'm convinced this sniper is ex-military. He's just too d@mn good to be civilian trained.

I heard a profiler talking on the radio today. He's not really *THAT* good (like Geordi is ). He's proficient, but he's essentially shooting at stationary targets. The profiler commented that if you can hit a can off a post, you could hit the people the sniper's shooting at.

Remember, people at a gas station are essentially stationary. The oddball one is the kid at school.

Forgive me if I seem alarmist, but is there any proof it isn't Al Qida? I look at the results and realize a terrorist would love this bang for his buck. I mean a few dead (sorry, but it is minor compared with traffic fatalities and I don't cower in fear of highways) and people as far away as California will react to it. Great media exposure, etc. A terrorist would love this.

Whoa, I'm not on PM?

I have not seen the episode in question but was drawn into this discussion fron the first sentances from "last day".

I'm still inclined to think that this is just some nutcase who is no different from the regular string of pre-Sept. 11 nutcases who roamed the streets from time-to-time. Until more evidence is gathered, I believe Occom's Razer would apply, no?

Sparrow47,

The simplest explanation is that Dr. Evil's henchmen are doing it to corner the world belly button lint market. It's obvious if you just follow the money.

That's diabolical! We can't let that happen!

It was a black guy named Mohammad and his young ward from the West Indies. Didn't see that one coming.

Yes, and while JAM did have Gulf War experience, he supposedly never took sniper training. Oops.

Did anybody else see this story on CourtTV the other night? If I had to describe my reaction to these criminal's claim's that word would be, what the hell?!?!?

Well, one of the DC Snipers alledgedly wrote "Break fre of the Matrix" in one of his notes. It's basically the same deal as the NBK incidents.

What is it all ready? Some idiot claim the Matrix made him do it?

Hey, its better than "the little blue man who lives in my pocket and goes "eep eep eep" made me do it." If I go nuts ("if"?), dress as a doctor, and accidently kill a patient through complete ignorace of medicine, can I blame "e.r."?

Merat,

Yes.
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Merat, If I go nuts ("if"?), dress as a doctor, and accidently kill a patient through complete ignorace of medicine, can I blame "e.r."?

Why would you kill a patient? If you just dress up as a doctor and have watched some E.R., you can treat patients just fine. And patients of "real" doctors die all the time. (I mean, you just need the guts and charme to sound convincing - like "catch me if you can" or the guy who was recently discovered - he had degree, but read some stuff, so he was promoted from doctor to head of station.)

Oh, and the previous post is meant as

How about the "Pepe le Pew made me a stalker" defense?

And no, I'm not referring to myself!

It doesn't really matter anymore, as the perps have been convicted for some time now, but one of the mistakes by investigation with this case was the police allowed witnesses to socialize with each other, which should never happen. The profilers missed the mark here too as they were betting on the lone gunman M.O.