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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C._sniper_attacks
TIL in 2002, John Muhammad (41) & Lee Malvo (17) went on a random killing spree known as the D.C. Sniper Attacks. However, their rampage actually began months before on the West Coast. They murdered 17 people (injured 10) in Washington, Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, & DC.
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Wait, this isn’t well known anymore? I was down there visiting trying to get back to NJ having to pump my own gas one of the days they were out there doing this!!!!Scary as shit!!!
That was a really scary time in the D.C. area. Everybody had been to at least one of the places where the snipers struck. I’d been to the gas station in Manassas many times. And, I the one and only time I went to that Home Depot was only a couple of days before the shooting there.
I remember this. Gas stations were hanging tarps up so it would interfere with line of sight.
This was back when I was in high school in the Annapolis area, they never closed schools they just told us to walk in a serpentine pattern so that we’d be harder to hit… honest to god they gave us a daily reminder on the morning announcements in school.
They had no idea at the time who was responsible or what they were driving. They were convinced it was a white work van. Because at every shooting there was a plain white work van near by. So they pulled over and searched plain white work vans for weeks.
My little league baseball season (fall ball) got cancelled after six games because of this. We were 6-0.
That was such a wierd time, internet was just a pre-teen, maybe child back then.
We had 9/11
Snipers shooting people from trunks of cars
Anthrax letters
Back then we were not used to those head lines; now global pandemic, war in Europe, super polarized politics, so many mass shootings, etc. have us jaded.
Wow good TIL, I have never before heard a single thing about any murders prior to their spree in DC. It was a constant barrage of news about these guys for so long and I feel like the fact that they were serial killers in the West before then was never mentioned. TIL, twenty years later!
20+ years already, wow. I thought it was in like 2007.
How long would it take to identify/find them if they did this again and carried the same cell phone(s) with them for each incident/killing?
Grew up in fairfax county, everyone was shook to pump
Gas or walk to their cars.
I’ll never forget it. The first sniper shooting occurred on my son’s birthday. One of them happened about a mile from where we lived. A very scary time to have young children in the D.C. area.
My friend puff and I spent an afternoon pumping gas for people while northern Virginia was losing their minds.
People were pumping gas hiding behind their cars and generally terrified, and because we were doing a nice thing, nobody mentioned that he was smoking a blunt 😂
#Yeah, let’s talk about it on interesting as fuck… That way some other pieces of shit can get the idea that they’ll get *their* 15 minutes by going on a mass attention spree.
I feel old lol. This was during my high school years. I wonder if in a decade we will have TILs of 9/11
Wasn’t this the guy that was trying to kill his wife and created a serial killer so as not to draw attention to him by making them random attacks?
WTF I was alive for this and didn’t know that!
Again *why this*?
*Somebody*??….