Beltway sniper attacks

SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICAL THINKING By Seth Owen The Beltway sniper attacks were a string of killings that occurred between October 2, 2002 and October 22, 2002 in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The perpetrators, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, claimed ten victims and wounded seven others during the attacks. Their criminal activity began in February, 2002 with a series of murders and robberies in eight different states which left seven dead and seven wounded. The shootings were carried out with a Bushmaster XM-15 rifle fired through a hole in the rear of a blue Chevrolet Caprice. In each attack, the perpetrators killed their victims with a single round fired at considerable range and then drove away. The offenders were eventually…

(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination. or kidnapping”(Definitions of Terrorism). This definition describes the case of John Allen Muhammad, 42, and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17 . Although they did not have an agenda, people to persuade, or a government to attack, clearly their assault on was meant to intimidate and frighten the citizens…

called Aspen Hill, located in Maryland, the first sniper attack the Beltway Sniper occurred on October 2, 2002. At this point people couldn’t help but to wonder if it was an isolated incident. Although it was a miss, many questions were asked. Who was the intended target? Why would someone do such a thing? Is the attacker mentally ill, or are they just a disgruntled person trying to take out anger on innocent people? These are just a few questions many people had going through their minds. The…

“I was a monster” said Lee Boyd Malvo in an interview ten years after him and John Allen Mahummad went on a killing spree during the month of October in 2002(White 2012). The two were also known as the D.C. Snipers or Beltway Snipers. The infamous killing spree spread though out a number of states. The states include: Alabama Arizona Florida Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, and Washington. The Snipers took the lives away from a total of seventeen people, leaving ten injured. John Allen Mahummad was…

The DC Snipers October 2, 2002, is the start of a series of murders that authorities had a difficult time explaining. At 5:20 p.m. the first shot of many over the course of several days was fired through a window at a Michaels Craft Store in Aspen Hill. In a little over an hour later, at 6:30 p.m., James Martin, who was a 55-year-old program analyst at NOAA, was fatally shot and killed in the Shoppers Food Warehouse grocery store parking lot in Glenmont. The next morning on October 3, within two…

When a gambling dispute became violent, several of the suspects inside the establishment shot 10 people. The shooting took place inside of a Greenville bar 60 miles southwest of Atlanta. Investigators of criminal law have made no arrests, but the Meriwether County Sheriff Chuck Smith vowed to shutdown the bar. Deputies responded before 3 am to find three individuals who had suffered gunshot wounds. They later learned that seven other people had left on their own to receive help. Five women and…

off and was going through the protocol when all hell broke loose. The objective of the enemy was to get us out of our vehicles so the sniper could go to work. Sgt BFF had a round graze the top of his head. Doc Purple Heart, when the rounds started bouncing off the inside of our track, grabbed Sgt. BFF and laid on top of him. This exposed Dos buttock to the sights of the enemy’s rifle. Doc took a round to the rear end that exited the front of his thigh. At this point the man behind the sniper…

Summary There is a sniper on a roof waiting to fire. While he is waiting he is shot at by an unseen enemy who is on another roof. Since he can’t find the other sniper he decides to shoot an informer he sees on the street below, causing him to be shot in the arm. This leaves him unable to lift his rifle, and therefore unable to use it correctly. He decides that the only way to be rid of the enemy sniper is to get him to become visible. The sniper tricks the enemy into thinking that he is dead,…

"Have a nice trip to hell." Smirking, the American agent looked through the sight of his pistol, staring straight into the recently captured Russian spy's eyes. Fun as this may be, he still had to line up the shot properly so that there was no chance of the spy's survival. Grasping the trigger now, the American slowly exhaled, so as to remain absolutely still. He aimed the gun at the left side of the Russian's chest and pulled the trigger. As the bullet hit him, the spy recoiled, let out his…

Boom! I fall to the ground; there's ringing in my ears. The artillery has bombed another trench yet again (Young 28). My m1 Garand is twelve feet away from me, and the trenches are filling with shrapnel. More explosions are bound to come, so I crawl to my Springfield semi-automatic (m1 Garand), still with the smell of gunpowder and smoke in my nostrils. But I continue to go get my gun I grab it and shoot the Germans pouring in the wood rotten trenches. Then I get out of the trench someone yells…