Two people shot by sniper in West Virginia at gas station

[IndianaGreen]

Breaking on MSNBC TV now!

Two separate incidents. The victim in one shooting was pumping gas.

No other details.

[alaine]

1. Great.

Here we go again.

[IndianaGreen]

2. Here is a local WV history... sounds like what is breaking on MSNBC

Woman shot at gas station
August 14, 2003 11:28 PM
Campells Creek

A woman has been shot at a gas station.

The Kanawha County Sheriff's Department says the incident happened late tonight at the Super America in Campbells Creek.

No other information was available.

http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/wv/news1.shtml

[corarose]

24. My Mom was from Kanawha County

Haven't heard of Campbells Creek. Did it happen around Beckley?

[IndianaGreen]

3. Woman, man shot dead outside Campbells Creek, Cedar Grove gas stations

Does this sound like the Malvo case?

August 15, 2003
2 gunned down
Woman, man shot dead outside Campbells Creek, Cedar Grove gas stations
By Paul Wilson
Staff Writer

Two people were killed late Thursday in separate shootings outside Kanawha County convenience stores, in what police said could be related random shootings.

The two became the second and third people shot dead outside Kanawha Valley convenience stores within four days, and the third and fourth people murdered in Kanawha County on a bloody Thursday.

Thursday night, a woman was gunned down while pumping gas at a Campbells Creek convenience store about 10:20 p.m., while another person was shot slightly more than an hour later outside a Cedar Grove store. Both were killed.

<snip>

Late Thursday, police across the Valley were alerted to increase patrols around stores with gas pumps. Police were alerted to look for a black pickup truck with gold trim seen leaving the Cedar Grove store and a dark-green or blue Chevrolet Corsica from the Campbells Creek shooting.

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/200308151

[bluestateguy]

4. Was WV hit by the blackout?

Or this could be some kind of copycat thing. We'll have to wait and see.

[remfan]

10. WV wasn't hit by the blackout -- n/t

[snake1306]

14. John Mohammed and Malvo

were probably following Osama's exhortation for all Muslims to carry out a "Jihad" against the US.

Wonder if this is the same thing?

[demsrule4life]

23. My opinion of John Mohammed

is that his exwife and kids live in that area and he was working his way to kill her. She would of looked like another victim of the DC Snipers, and John would of gotten his kids. Of course this is only a theory.

[snake1306]

25. Yes, I heard that theory as well...

[LosinIt]

5. Ahnold, Scott Peterson, Missiles, now Snipers

All to distract the masses from the raping of our country and several small, Middle Eastern countries as well. Fear, fear, fear.

[Voltaire99]

7. Precisely right

Violence is the American way--and the serving up of it in our "news" as if it were not is a most effective form of social control.

[tlb]

6. Forgive me

but I can't help but picture Steve Martin yelling " THE CANS, HE HATES THE CANS ! "

[jayfish]

15. Classic. -NT-

LOL funny. :D

Jay

[Cthulu_2004]

8. What's up with the "sniper" tag?

Suddenly, anybody shot form over 10 feet away is a "sniper victim"...

It's fear-mongering, plain and simple.

[GOPFighter]

13. WV News article doesn't mention the word sniper

The local news article, posted above, doesn't mention the word sniper.

[IndianaGreen]

32. The MSNC reporter did mention "sniper" early this morning (3 AM ET)

I haven't seen the story this afternoon, but then I got on the internet about half an hour ago.

[Terwilliger]

21. what do you call it? paddy-cake?

snip·er ( P ) Pronunciation Key (snpr)
n.
-A skilled military shooter detailed to spot and pick off enemy soldiers from a concealed place.
-One who shoots at other people from a concealed place.

Well, blow my guns, it's in the definition!

[theodoliticus]

9. .

I wonder if this sniper is also a vet. Maybe just back from Baghdad ?

[Terwilliger]

22. if you want to hang with us here at DU

stop posting "periods" as subject lines...annoying and rude

[ohmyman1]

28. jessca lynch

[demsrule4life]

11. I wonder why it hasen't been on the national news services

I guess it isn't news unless it happens in NYC, LA or DC.

[spinbaby]

12. You got that right

You notice if you watch the news how the blackout only inconvenienced New Yorkers.

[Catherine Vincent]

16. I thought the same too regarding the blackout.

It happened in several states in the US and parts of Canada. But all you heard on the news was about New York City.

Why?

[THUNDER HANDS]

17. um...

That's because about a quarter of the people affected by it were in the City.

What, we're supposed to care that Bristol, Conn. went without power for a while?

We're NY, we always come first - as it should be.

:evilgrin:

[donco6]

29. Well, another theory has it that . . .

. . . it's awful easy to shoot the camera out the window - no driving to Bristol!

Hope you've got your power back, regardless! Can't imagine being in the City in August with no AC. Ugh.


Oh, duh, on edit, realized that you MUST have power or we wouldn't be reading from you.

[NYC]

36. I see the key word in your sentence to be

"inconvenienced". For the most part, that's what a blackout is. (I'm not talking about electricity shortages on a scale of what's happening in Iraq. That is not inconvenience.)

The blackout was a major inconvenience, but it wasn't some kind of disaster. More $ damage than anything else. I guess that's why we hear so much about it. The corporations lost money.

[MetaTrope]

18. Were the victims FBI analysts again?

Doesn't seem a very secure career these days.

[Terwilliger]

19. This is OBVIOUSLY an argument for a relaxation of gun regulations

:eyes:

:nuke:

[monkeyboy]

26. Damn straight

If the victims had been in posession of their own M3K6-98 sniper rifles with auto front loading twin X ammo and laser sighting gigasnatch recoiless snap front stock, none of this would have happened.

[donco6]

30. LOOK OUT! FLAMEWAR!

Anyone mentioning guns around here gets an earful. Or should I say "eyefull?"

But, yeah, sure, if they'd had their own Uzi they'd be alive today.

[AP]

20. Perhaps to divert people from blaming Bush for blackout?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1

[donco6]

31. Karl Rove in Camo and heels

What a picture.

[ohmyman1]

27. suspect

Was it jessica lynch?

[NNN0LHI]

33. Single Shooter Could Be to Blame in Three Convenience Store Killings in W.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA19ASQEJD.html

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Three people have been shot to death outside convenience stores in and around West Virginia's capital in the past week, and authorities said Friday that a single shooter might be responsible.
"We are now investigating into what could be a possible serial-type murder," said Kanawha County Sheriff Dave Tucker.

Kanawha County Chief Deputy Phil Morris said he was concerned that the Charleston shootings resembled last year's sniper shootings in the Washington, D.C., area. The FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives joined state and local authorities in the hunt for the shooter.

In the West Virginia slayings, two victims were shot in the head and another was hit in the neck, Tucker said. The shooter was more than 30 yards away from all three, officials said, and they believe a rifle was used in the attacks.

more

[guajira]

34. I Heard There Were 3 Shootings - One Victim Was in a Phone Booth

Didn't that happen in Virginia?

[PaDUer]

35. Sure did..

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