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London Shooting Research Paper

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It all started on October 2002 and for the Washington Metropolitan Area it seemed liked the longest three weeks they had. What had happened during those three weeks would change the lives of thousands. What seemed to be a random killing spree turned out to be a massive plan that claimed the lives of ten innocent people in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. When the shooting first began, people were believed it was carried out by a man in a van or truck. But later we found out that the shootings were by a man named John Allen Muhammad, and his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, in a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice sedan.
The first shooting happened on the day of October 2 2002 at 6:30 p.m., James Martin, a 55-year-old NOAA analyst, was shot and killed …show more content…

A man named James Buchanan was shot near a gas station in Rockville Maryland. He was shot twice; once in the leg and other in the chest. No one saw the vehicle that the bullets were shot out of. Three more kills where in Maryland and couple miles apart from each shooting so they kinda starting seeing a trail going on with it but still couldn't trace anything back to them. The vehicle was still on the run and no one knew who was behind the wheel just yet. Two shootings happened about 30 minutes apart. The first was a man named Pascal Charlot, a man age 72 was shot in Washington DC he was pulled over on a highway. His car broke down and was asking for help and Muhammad and Malvo did a drive by without anyone paying any attention he was shot on the side of the road. And they were on to their next victim. About a few moments later the police were called and someone said they seem a car drive by kinda slower than usual and when they sped up a man was on the side of the road dead. The shooting about 30 minutes after that was a woman Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera a police women who was on her daily night jog at 9:58 p.m. She was shot near her neighborhood and there was a loud “BANG” and tires squeal across the street it was to dark to see the car but someone knew what kind of car it looked like. A 1990 Chevrolet Caprice sedan they said they heard the engine and saw it briefly in the street

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