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A region gripped by fear Ten years ago, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo went on a killing spree that terrorized the D.C. area.
Oct. 4, 2002
A bullet hole is visible in a window as people place flowers on a bench near the spot where Sarah Ramos was killed; four other people were killed on Oct. 3 by the snipers.
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Oct. 3, 2002
A police officer takes measurements in front of the body of Sarah Ramos, who was killed at the Leisure World shopping center in Silver Spring.
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Oct. 7, 2002
Montgomery County police comb through bushes along the parking lot that services the Michaels store on Aspen Hill Road. Premkumar A. Walekar, 54, was killed Oct. 3 while pumping gas at a service station in Aspen Hill.
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Oct. 9, 2012
Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose, center, is mobbed by the media after a news conference about the sniper shootings at police headquarters in Rockville.
Ricky Carioti
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Oct. 7, 2002
Tom Huggins sits at his gas station in Kensington with his television tuned to news of the sniper shootings. Business at the station, a half-block north of one of the killings, had slowed to a crawl.
Michael Temchine
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Oct. 9, 2002
Police cars surround a Sunoco gas station in Manassas, where Dean Harold Meyers was fatally shot while pumping gas.
Karen Bleier
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Oct. 11, 2002
Police officers and federal agents search a gas station located across the street from the Exxon station in Spotsylvania County, near Fredericksburg, where Kenneth H. Bridges was fatally shot while pumping gas.
Shawn Thew
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Oct. 11, 2002
Law enforcement officials investigate the Exxon station near Fredericksburg where Kenneth H. Bridges, 53, was killed in a sniper attack.
Reza A. Marvashti
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Oct. 11, 2002
A Fairfax County police officer checks a pickup truck stopped on Interstate 395 in Springfield. Police searched the interstate after a van was seen leaving the scene of a deadly shooting at a Virginia gas station. At that point, nine sniper attacks had been carried out in the Washington area, leaving seven dead.
Rob Ostermaier
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AP
Oct. 11, 2002
Montgomery Police Capt. Nancy Demme, rear left, and Officer Derek Baliles, rear right, hand out photos of a truck that was sought in the sniper attacks at police headquarters in Rockville.
Ricky Carioti
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The Washington Post
Oct. 14, 2002
An Arlington County police officer ensures no vehicles turn around before reaching a checkpoint heading east on Route 50. The police were checking vehicles in the Seven Corners area after Linda Franklin, 47, was shot and killed outside a Home Depot that night.
Lawrence Jackson
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AP
Oct. 12, 2002
Guardian Angel Joel Rivera listens to Lisa Brown’s instructions on which grade to pump at the Belle Haven Texaco Station in Alexandria. Brown said she was “running on empty” and would not have stopped if it were not for the Guardian Angels, who offered to pump gas for customers wary of doing so because of the sniper shootings.
Gerald Martineau
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The Washington Post
Oct. 14, 2002
An unidentified woman looks out her rearview window while pumping gas at a station in Alexandria.
Brendan McDermid
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Reuters
Oct. 11, 2002
Deborah Cox, the oldest sister of James L. “Sonny” Buchanan, collects flowers with Buchanan’s lifelong friend Gloria Crigger after his funeral services at First Baptist Church in Gaithersburg. Buchanan, 39, had been killed Oct. 3 in one of the sniper attacks.
Sarah L. Voisin
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The Washington Post
Oct. 15, 2002
From left, Buzz Anderson, a Virginia State Police criminal investigator; Willy Straubhaar, a Prince William County police crime analyst; Tex Lindsey, a deputy U.S. marshal; and Lenny DePaul, an inspector U.S. marshal, take tips in the Sniper Task Force war room.
Sarah L. Voisin
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The Washington Post
Oct. 31, 2003
A note found inside of a bag at an Ashland, Va., shooting scene is displayed on a screen during testimony in the trial of John Allen Muhammad at Virginia Beach Circuit Court.
Adrin Snider
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Reuters
Oct. 15, 2002
Prince William police officer Matt Mihalouich talks with Ivan V. Logan of Fredericksburg at an Amoco station at routes 1 and 123. Logan claimed to have a tip about a white van that had been spotted at several of the shooting sites.
Sarah L. Voisin
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The Washington Post
Oct. 15, 2002
Police search for clues in the sniper shooting outside the Home Depot in Falls Church. Ballistics evidence linked the death of Linda Franklin, who was shot in the parking lot, to the snipers.
Doug Mills
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AP
Oct. 19, 2002
Family members and relatives of Dean Harold Meyers, 53, attend his funeral at Coventry Church of the Brethren in Pottstown, Pa. He was killed Oct. 9 at a gas station near Manassas.
Carol Guzy
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The Washington Post
Oct. 18, 2002
A tarp was hung at this Fairfax gas station to offer some protection to fearful patrons. Nine people had been killed in the Washington area sniper attacks, several of them at service stations.
Luke Frazza
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AFP
Oct. 19, 2002
An unidentified man lies handcuffed on the ground next to his white van at a gas station in Stafford. Police were stopping and handcuffing drivers in white vans that fit a description of a vehicle that was reported to have been seen near the sites of the shootings.
Brendan McDermid
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Reuters
Oct. 19, 2002
An officer from the Hanover County Sheriff's Office stands in front of a Ponderosa steakhouse in Ashland, Va., after Jeffrey Hopper, 37, was shot and wounded in the restaurant’s parking lot.
Dean Hoffmeyer
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AP
Oct. 20, 2002
Traffic backs up on the Capital Beltway entering Montgomery County in the early-morning hours as police check vehicles entering Maryland as part of the search for the D.C. area snipers.
Hyungwon Kang
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Reuters
Oct. 19, 2002
Frank Mirza grabs a cart at Home Depot in Falls Church, unaware that the recent sniper shooting there had temporarily closed the store.
James A. Parcell
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The Washington Post
Oct. 20, 2002
Members of the Hanover County Sheriff's Office line up to search the wooded area behind a Ponderosa steakhouse in Ashland, Va., after Jeffrey Hopper was shot outside the restaurant.
John McDonnell
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The Washington Post
Oct. 21, 2002
Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose collects his thoughts during a news conference with other law enforcement officials at their command center in Rockville. They offered a message to someone they had been in contact with about the sniper investigation.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Oct. 22, 2002
Investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives leave the woods after searching for evidence.
Robert A. Reeder
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The Washington Post
Oct. 22, 2002
Harmony Hills Elementary School secretary Ada Miranda tapes a sign to the Silver Spring building’s front door with instructions for parents who need to take their children early. After bus driver Conrad E. Johnson was killed that day in Aspen Hill, only half of the student body — four of the school’s usual eight buses — showed up to school. Johnson, the last person killed by the Washington area snipers, was 35.
Sarah L. Voisin
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The Washington Post
Oct. 23, 2002
After a recent sniper shooting near Strathmore Elementary School, many parents in Aspen Hill escorted their children to school rather than put them on a school bus.
Sarah L. Voisin
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The Washington Post
Oct. 23, 2002
Investigators comb the yard of a Tacoma, Wash., home looking for evidence with a possible connection to the D.C. area sniper shootings. An official said authorities were looking for two “people of interest,'' one of them formerly connected to what is now Joint Base Lewis-McChord, south of Tacoma.
Mike Urban
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer via AP
Oct. 23, 2002
Law enforcement officials hand out photographs of John Allen Muhammad after Montgomery Police Chief Charles A. Moose announced that he was wanted for questioning.
Brian Snyder
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Reuters
Oct. 24, 2002
Law enforcement officers search the car that John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were found in when police arrested them at a rest stop off Interstate 70 near Myersville.
Brendan McDermid
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Reuters
Oct. 24, 2002
From left, Alan Broomhall, Mark Weatherbee, Shannon Bohince and Craig Blauir watch the news of John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo’s arrests during a break from a training session at Aegis in McLean. After hearing about the sniper attacks, Broomhall and Weatherbee, both of Maine, debated attending the training.
Michael Temchine
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For The Washington Post
Oct. 23, 2002
Law enforcement officials believe the snipers positioned themselves in this wooded area near Grand Pre Road and Connecticut Avenue in Aspen Hill before shooting one of their victims.
James M. Thresher
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The Washington Post
Oct. 26, 2002
Mourners of slain Montgomery County Ride-On bus driver Conrad Johnson make their way to Glendale First Baptist Church in Landover to pay their respects during a wake. Johnson was the final victim of the Washington area sniper.
Ricky Carioti
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The Washington Post
Oct. 24, 2002
Winnifred Odoi puts flowers at the site where bus driver Conrad E. Johnson was killed by sniper fire.
Carol Guzy
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The Washington Post
Jan. 14, 2003
Sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo is escorted from Fairfax County juvenile court after his preliminary hearing in Fairfax.
Rich Lipski
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The Washington Post
Nov. 13, 2002
John Allen Muhammad is led into the courtroom for a hearing on appointment of council at Prince William County Circuit Court in Manassas.
Jahi Chikwendiu
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The Washington Post
Oct. 25, 2002
A sign over the Capital Beltway in Silver Spring thanks Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose after the capture of the sniper suspects. Moose led the law enforcement task force that arrested John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo.
Jim Bourg
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Reuters
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