Mike Levin: “in the fall of 2002 the entire country was focused on the Washington, DC, area as an unknown sniper indiscriminately…”

“in the fall of 2002 the entire country was focused on the Washington, DC, area as an unknown sniper indiscriminately shot 16 innocent people in little more than a month, from September 14 to October 24. Among the sniper victims were Jim Martin, shot and killed on October 2 while walking across a Shoppers Food Warehouse parking lot in Wheaton, MD, after purchasing groceries for his church; Sarah Ramos was shot and killed while sitting on a bench in front of a post office. She was waiting for a ride to take her to a babysitting job; Thirteen-year-old Iran Brown, the youngest of the victims, was shot in the chest and wounded on October 7 after getting out of a car at his middle school; and Conrad Johnson, a 35-year-old busdriver, was shot and killed on October 22 while standing on the top step of his bus at a ride-on bus staging area in Aspen Hill, MD. On Thursday, October 24, members of the sniper task force arrested John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Boyd Malvo at a rest stop on I-75 in Frederick County. They were charged with shooting the victims with a Bushmaster semiautomatic assault rifle. Both were prohibited under Federal law from possessing a gun. Malvo is a juvenile and Muhammad was the subject of a domestic violence restraining order. Both have been convicted of capital murder in Virginia. The sniper rifle used by Malvo and Muhammad was later traced to Bull's Eye Shooter Supply in Takoma, WA.”