Summary: <p>The DC Sniper was a series of coordinated shooting on civilians at random during October 2002 which were perpetrated by John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo.</p> <h2 id="duration">Duration:</h2> <ul> <li> <strong>Preliminary shooting</strong>: 16 February 2002 - 26 September 2002</li> <li> <strong>Sniper shooting</strong>: 02 October 2002 - 24 October 2002</li> <li> <strong>Perpetrators</strong>: John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo</li> <li> <strong>Casualty</strong>: 17 deaths and 10 injuries</li> <li> <strong>Location</strong>: Arizona, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.</li> <li> <strong>Motive</strong>: Anger, Greed, Revenge</li> <li> <strong>Date apprehended</strong>: 24 October 2002</li> </ul> <h2 id="timeline">Timeline:</h2> <h3 id="preliminary-shooting">Preliminary shooting:</h3> <ul> <li>16 February 2002: 21-year-old Keenya Cook shot and killed at Tacoma, Washington. She was the niece of John Allen’s ex-wife’s friend who supported her decision to divorce.</li> <li>19 March 2002: 60-year-old Jerry Taylor shot and killed while playing golf at Tucson, Arizona.</li> <li>01 August 2002: 51-year-old John Gaeta shot while changing tires at a parking lot in Hammond, Louisiana. He survives.</li> <li>05 September 2002: 55-year-old Paul LaRuffa, a pizzeria owner in Clinton, Maryland, shot 6 times but survives.</li> <li>21 September 2002: 41-year-old Million A. Woldemariam shot dead in Atlanta, Georgia. 52-year-old Claudine Parker, a liquor store clerk, shot dead in Montgomery, Alabama. The killings happen in the span of nineteen hours.</li> <li>23 September 2002: 45-year-old Hong Im Ballenger shot death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with a Bushmaster rifle.</li> </ul> <h2 id="sniper-shooting">Sniper Shooting:</h2> <h3 id="location-montgomery-county-maryland">Location: Montgomery County, Maryland</h3> <ul> <li>02 October 2002: A shot 55-year-old through a window of a Michaels craft store in Aspen Hill. No one hurt. One hour later,55 year-old James Martin shot dead at a parking lot in Wheaton.</li> <li>03 October 2002: <ul> <li> <p>39-year-old James L. Buchanan shot dead at 11411 Rockville Pike near Rockville, Maryland, while mowing grass.</p> </li> <li> <p>54-year-old part-time taxi driver, Prem Kumar Walekar shot dead at Aspen Hill while pumping gas.</p> </li> <li> <p>34-year-old babysitter and housekeeper Sarah Ramos killed at 3701 Rossmoor Boulevard at the Leisure World Shopping Center in Norbeck, while seated on a bench reading a book.</p> </li> <li> <p>25-year-old Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera shot dead while vacuuming her Dodge Caravan at the intersection of Connecticut and Knowles Avenues.</p> </li> <li> <p>72-year-old Pascal Charlot shot dead while walking on Georgia Avenue at Kalmia Road.</p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>All the killing except Pascal Charlot happened in the morning between a space of two hours of time.</p> <h3 id="location-virginia-and-other-areas">Location: Virginia and other areas</h3> <ul> <li>04 October 2002: 43-year-old homemaker Caroline Seawell shot and wounded at Spotsylvania Mall in Spotsylvania.</li> <li>07 October 2002: 13-year-old Iran Brown shot and injured as he arrived at the Benjamin Tasker Middle School at 4901 Collington Road in Bowie, Maryland.</li> <li>09 October 2002: 53-year-old Dean Harold Meyers shot dead while pumping gas at 7203 Sudley Road in Prince William County, Virginia.</li> <li>11 October 2002: 53-year-old businessman Kenneth Bridges shot dead at Exxon station off Interstate 95 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.</li> <li>14 October 2002: 47-year-old Linda Franklin, an FBI intelligence analyst 35-year-old shot dead - in a covered parking lot at Home Depot in Fairfax County, Virginia.</li> <li>19 October 2002: 37-year-old Jeffrey Hopper shot at State Route 54 in Ashland, Virginia. He survives.</li> <li>22 October 2002: 35 year old bus driver Conrad Johnson, shot dead at the 14100 block of Grand Pre Road in Aspen Hill.</li> </ul> <p>Audio:</p> <ul> <li>Passing Over <a href="https://www.freestockmusic.com/license-agreement/" target="_blank">Freestock Audio</a> </li> <li>Footsteps <a href="http://soundbible.com/2057-Footsteps-On-Cement.html" target="_blank">Soundible</a> </li> <li>Sniper Rifle <a href="http://soundbible.com" target="_blank">Soundible</a> </li> </ul> <p>Image: <a href="https://pixabay.com/en/sniper-aim-crosshair-cross-hairs-297661/" target="_blank">pixabay</a></p>
