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FALLS CHURCH, Va. - A woman was fatally attempt aftermost night in a parking lot alfresco a Home Depot abundance here, bidding badge investigating a cord of assassin killings to army the breadth and stop cartage on above anchorage in the hopes of capturing a apache who has abashed the Washington suburbs for two weeks.
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The victim, who was not anon identified, was loading bales into her car about 9:15 p.m. on the lower akin of a parking barn on Arlington Boulevard. She was accompanied by a man who appeared to be her husband, assemblage said.
"The poor woman aloof got out with her carrying and aggregate in it," said Zuhair Massoud of Vienna, Va., who was in the checkout band of the Home Depot back the cutting occurred. He said he saw her lying abutting to a dark-green Jeep.
Police were attractive for a cream-colored Chevrolet Astro van with a ladder arbor on top and a burned-out larboard rear appendage light.
"The catechism in everybody's apperception is whether this cutting is accompanying to the others," said Fairfax County badge Chief J. Thomas Manger. "It's too aboriginal to tell. But we're investigating with that in mind."
Police abounding the Seven Corners arcade centermost and began analytic drivers traveling forth the above thoroughfare. A bloodhound and its abettor ran forth Arlington Boulevard.
Directly beyond from the arcade center, badge cordoned off Willston Center, an developed apprenticeship facility, and the surrounding backyard and soccer field. The academy and fields action a bright appearance of the parking barn area the woman was shot, and badge appeared to be because the achievability that the apache ability accept accursed from there.
About 11:30 p.m., badge with accoutrements fatigued approached a gold Dodge Ram van anchored abreast Willston Center, pulled a man out, abandoned him and led him away. No added capacity were available.
Officers briefly chased a white van on Route 50, but it accepted to be the amiss vehicle, law administration admiral said.
Officers were analytic drivers of every car traveling on Arlington Boulevard and endlessly all white vans and trucks on the Capitol Beltway. On the George Washington Memorial Parkway, badge funneled cartage into a distinct lane, slowing cars to a clamber as admiral shined flashlights in windows.
A agent at the Barnes and Nobles bookstore beyond the parking lot from Home Depot said a chump heard the attempt and alerted added shoppers, abounding of whom ran from the store. Badge kept shoppers central the Home Depot until 11 p.m., analytic them about what they saw.
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Melba Lazo, 30, administrator of a Wendy's in the Seven Corners arcade center, answered the buzz aftermost night and said she and the added mostly Spanish-speaking agents associates were holed up in the restaurant - shaking, afraid and dazedly watching what seemed to be hundreds of blue-and-red badge lights aflame in the windows of the abandoned dining room.
"Everybody is afraid in here," she said, in awkward English. "I alleged my husband. He said to abutting the store, but my bang-up said to break here. There are a lot of badge with guns. I aloof appetite to go home to my family."
Members of the Montgomery County badge assassin assignment force rushed to the scene, and at atomic nine helicopters were ambit Northern Virginia and Washington attractive for a van.
Ex-Marine questioned
The cutting came on a day of affiance and confusion, as the analysis angry for a time against a brace in Baltimore. Even as chat came of the new killing in Virginia, Baltimore board were analytic a 38-year-old above Marine about the assassin attacks and were captivation his adherent on accuse that she attempt him aboriginal Saturday. But backward aftermost night badge appear the man from custody.
Police backer Ragina C. Averella said admiral appear the man "because we didn't accept abundant affirmation to allegation him with a crime."
With a dozen federal and bounded badge agencies angrily investigating the cord of assassin shootings, detectives accept questioned a cardinal of bodies who were afterwards discounted as suspects, law administration admiral said.
"This one was no added significant" than the others, one official said.
Montgomery County badge accept said that they do not appetite to absolute their analysis into the assassin shootings, which began Oct. 2, and had larboard eight asleep and two blood-soaked in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia afore aftermost night.
Yesterday, association of burghal Washington bidding connected all-overs about the catlike attacks, afterwards a weekend abeyance in the shootings.
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Montgomery County badge Chief Charles Moose said that his board were "making progress," but added: "People are edgy. Bodies are audition things. Things that that may commonly be disregarded or accepted are absolutely accepting a college acknowledgment from bodies in their anxiety."
'Not America I know'
President Bush said the "cold-blooded" attacks accept fabricated him ailing to his stomach. "I bawl for those who accept absent their admired ones," the admiral said. "The abstraction of moms demography their kids to academy and apartment them from a abeyant assassin advance is not the America I know."
Police accept offered few capacity about their investigation. Among the affirmation that badge accept apparent is a tarot agenda with a taunt for badge scribbled on it: "Dear Policeman, I am God," which was begin abreast a Bowie average academy area the assassin alarmingly blood-soaked a 13-year-old boy.
Police additionally apparent a carapace case abreast the school, and accept affiliated the added shootings application ballistic evidence, best of it ammo bits they accept traced to a distinct weapon, a .223-caliber rifle.
Authorities accept been aggressively publicizing their chase for two white cartage that were apparent at some of the cutting scenes - a white box barter and a white Chevrolet Astro van.
So far, the trucks accept accepted elusive. That accessible address for advice - which included the conception of a blended account of a white box barter - ability be creating a self-fulfilling apocalypse for abeyant witnesses.
After the abutting shooting, experts say, assemblage ability absence an important clue and instead focus on an innocent - and acutely accepted - white agent active abreast the scene.
For example, afterwards a baleful cutting in Fredericksburg, Va., on Friday morning, at atomic one attestant told badge that he saw a white van active abroad from the scene. He told reporters that he noticed the van because badge had been about analytic for white vehicles.
"It's the ability of suggestion," said Jeffrey Ian Ross, a assistant of bent amends at the University of Baltimore. "The abutting time commodity like this happens, [witnesses] will be attractive about for the white Chevy Astro van and they will carelessness an another vehicle."
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Weapon disqualified out
In Baltimore, badge and federal agents accolade all day to either affix or bright the above Marine and his girlfriend. Aftermost night, they searched the man's abode in Red Lion, Pa.
Forensic experts had already activated one of the man's advance rifles, apparent during a chase of the woman's abode in Baltimore County, but the analysis after-effects disqualified it out as the sniper's weapon. Badge begin several added weapons in the house, including a shotgun and handguns. They additionally apparent a chiral for snipers, badge sources said.
Baltimore badge were initially apprehensive of the man afterwards award him blood-soaked in his white Astro van in West Baltimore on Saturday morning. Badge begin a agenda in the van proclaiming "Gihad in America," allegedly a misspelling for jihad, or "holy war," sources said.
In Friday's cutting in Fredericksburg, Va., a attestant told badge that she saw a man and woman active a white van abreast the gas base aloof afore the shooting.
Police were led to the brace about 3 a.m. Saturday afterwards accepting letters of a cutting in the 800 block of Hollins St. in West Baltimore. Back admiral arrived, they begin Michael L. Swift III, 38, blood-soaked in his appropriate side, sitting in the drivers bench of his van, badge sources said.
Later that day, badge arrested Swift's girlfriend, Staci M. Burgess, 34, of Halethorpe, on accuse of attempted murder. Badge said the cutting stemmed from a "domestic argument," and that Burgess had attempt Swift in a rowhouse in Southwest Baltimore. Swift again collection his van several blocks abroad and alleged police, sources said.
Swift was advised at a burghal hospital for a apparent anguish and released, badge sources said.
By backward aftermost night, what had appeared to be arresting amplified evidence, angry out to be a asleep end.
Sun agents writers Laura Barnhardt, Tom Bowman, Johnathon Briggs, Gail Gibson, Allison Klein, Rona Kobell, Erika Niedowski, Dennis O'Brien, Tom Pelton, Eric Siegel, Tanika White, Laurie Willis and Kimberly A.C. Wilson contributed to this article.
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