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Theresa
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Another Sniper
| Quote: | CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Aug. 18 ) - Investigators who worked on last year's Washington sniper shootings have joined the probe into three fatal shootings in the Charleston area, authorities said Monday.
''We have the agents that worked that particular case,'' Kanawha County Sheriff Dave Tucker said at a Monday afternoon briefing. ''They're on board with us and giving us some good advice, which we're following.'' Tucker said the investigators have ''supplied us with vital information. They have been on the front line with that case.''
Two residents from Campbells Creek, an unincorporated valley community near Charleston, were killed Thursday - one in the town itself - and police said their deaths, along with a killing earlier last week in Charleston, could be the work of a single shooter.
Over the weekend, police stepped up their patrols and conducted door-to-door interviews in Campbells Creek, hoping to calm fearful residents.
As night fell Sunday, five patrol cars patrolled the area - usually a job undertaken by two units.
''It has a calming effect on the public,'' Chief Deputy Phil Morris said.
All three killings had been after dark near gas stations or convenience stores. Morris recommended that residents do their shopping during the day and not go to gas stations at night alone.
Police stopped black trucks with tinted windows and extended cabs; witnesses described seeing such a vehicle at the shootings. Authorities also were scrutinizing video from surveillance cameras.
''There is no suspect at this point,'' Morris said Sunday.
Pat O'Connor said the increased patrols made him think that investigators believe the shooter lives in the Campbells Creek neighborhood. ''It makes you leery of being outside,'' O'Connor said.
O'Connor said his family had gathered Sunday night to prepare for the funeral of his newborn daughter, Katie, who died Thursday, the same night Jeanie Patton, 31, and Okey Meadows Jr., 26, both of Campbells Creek, were slain.
Already fearful for his family in the area, O'Connor said he now must warn other relatives traveling from as far away as Florida for the funeral.
''I told them to make sure to gas up before they get here. And when they do to make sure they don't see a black truck in the parking lot,'' O'Connor said.
The first victim was Gary Carrier Jr., 44, of South Charleston, who was shot in the head Aug. 10 while using a pay telephone outside a gas station on Charleston's west side.
The shootings were an immediate reminder of the sniper attacks last fall in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana. Two men were arrested and accused of shooting 19 people, killing 13 and wounding six.
Morris has given out his private office number in hopes that more witnesses - or even the shooter - will come forward. He said the only physical description authorities have in the case is of a large, white male seen at one shooting.
''It's not the best ID in the world, but its the best we have,'' said Morris.
AP-NY-08-18-03 1740EDT
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Kyle Reese
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| Mon Aug 18, 2003 9:45 pm Re: Copycat Crimes |
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| Quote: | He said the only physical description authorities have in the case is of a large, white male seen at one shooting.
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Yikes reminds me of the Terminator 
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Jeff Miller
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| Mon Aug 18, 2003 10:18 pm |
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yeah if the terminator was fat they are saying its a over weight white male in a black truck with gold trim
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Thomas
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| Tue Aug 19, 2003 3:57 am |
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Saw this on the news last night. I hope they manage to catch this one earlier than they did last time...
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Jeremy
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| Tue Aug 19, 2003 2:11 pm |
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((Its quite good, because there can be discusions with different news info, as in America its different from Britain and other places, and visa versa.))
I hope they catch him. Whats the point in doing something like that?
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Theresa
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| Quote: | CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Aug. 22) - Investigators said Thursday that ballistics tests showed all three victims in a series of sniper-style slayings at area convenience stores were killed by the same weapon.
Charleston Police Chief Jerry Pauley said the victims, who all were shot in the head or neck last week, were killed by a .22-caliber rifle.
``It does positively link the three bullets together. They all three came from the same weapon,'' Pauley said at an evening news conference. ``Now that we know it came from the same weapon, we've got a direction to go in.''
Also Thursday, police released a composite sketch of a person witnesses described seeing at the scene of one of the shootings: a heavy-set white male with dark hair, long sideburns and a goatee. Police did not describe the man as a suspect, but said they wanted to speak with him.
Witnesses told police they saw a large white man in a truck the night of the Aug. 14 shootings.
Based on witness accounts, investigators are looking for a dark-colored, two-tone Ford F-150 extended cab pickup that was seen at the last two slayings.
Gary Carrier Jr., 44, of South Charleston, was killed Aug. 10 while making a telephone call outside a Charleston convenience store.
Four days later, Jeanie Patton, 31, and Okey Meadows Jr., 26, both of Campbells Creek, were killed within 90 minutes of each other at rural convenience stores about 10 miles apart and less than 20 miles east of Charleston.
Pauley said investigators have not determined whether the three murders are the work of a random sniper. Kanawha County sheriff's officials had said earlier that the killings of Meadows and Patton appeared to be drug-related. Investigators haven't found any evidence to show drugs were involved in Carrier's slaying, Pauley said.
``We've got profilers looking at the information ... They haven't determined anything for us yet,'' Pauley said.
A city, county and federal task force continues to sift through more than 400 leads, 10 of which have linked two of the shootings in the Campbells Creek area to drugs.
``As the leads come in, the investigators will go out and check it,'' Pauley said. ``This may give us a little bit more direction to go in.''
Earlier Thursday, police said there was no evidence linking a Wednesday night report of a shooting outside in Dunbar, five miles from Charleston, to the convenience store slayings. A teenage girl said she heard gunshots outside a convenience store, but investigators said they found no physical evidence of a shooting.
08/22/03 01:33 EDT
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Jeremy
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| Wed Aug 27, 2003 2:41 pm |
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Thankfully it seems to have vanished now. Did the police catch anyone?
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