This is the story of the DC Sniper aka John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo
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So one day, this 55-year-old man is in a grocery store parking lot when suddenly, bang, he gets shot. He's unalived. The next day, bang, a guy is shot while he's mowing the lawn. Then, bang, a cab driver is shot while pumping gas. Then, bang, a woman at a post office is shot. Then, bang, another woman at a gas station.
And then later that night, bang, an older man who's just walking along on the sidewalk. Now, after all these random shootings, the police chief of Montgomery County, Maryland, this guy, Moose, Moose is like, well, these shootings, they gotta be connected. But unfortunately, police, they have no real leads. And then the next day, bang, another woman is shot while she's loading bags into her car.
Luckily, this woman survives. And Moose and the rest of the police are like, what the f**k? because none of the victims fit the same profile. It's like none of the victims are connected. Then, a few days later, a 13-year-old kid is getting out of his aunt's car to go to school, and bang, he gets shot.
And when police investigate the scene where the kid got shot, they find a tarot card with a message written on it. Call me God. And while police are investigating that, bang, another person gets unalived while they're pumping gas. And at this point, Moose, he's stressed out over this. It seems like no one in the area is safe, and police are doing everything they can.
They're working with the FBI, they've set up a tip line to see if anyone has any information, but nothing seems to help. And by this point, the word of these shootings has hit national news, and the information has spread, and the people in the DC area are all freaked out, and people are staying indoors, and the schools in the area are on lockdown, like they won't even let kids go out for recess.
And over the next few days, three more people are shot. Bang, bang, bang. And only one of them survives. However, this time, police are able to recover the bullet from inside that survivor's chest, which confirms all the shootings are connected to the same firearm, meaning they were done by the same person. They also find a ransom note in the woods near one of the shootings.
And in this note, this mysterious shooter is referring to himself as some kind of god. once again, and he's now demanding $10 million, or he'll keep unaliving people. Then a few days later, bang, the shooter unalives a bus driver about to start his shift. So the shootings haven't stopped, and it doesn't look like this guy is ever gonna get caught.
until moose he's still working hard on this case and in that ransom note they found the killer mentions that he had once tried to contact police via the tip line they set up and moose is like wait he called the tip line so police look into this and yeah it's true someone did call the tip line but this caller claimed to be involved with an earlier liquor store robbery and shooting
all the way over in Alabama. I guess police had assumed it was an unrelated crime because Alabama is so many states away from where they are in the DC area. So they look into this robbery that happened in Alabama and it turns out the robber had accidentally left a fingerprint at the scene. So then who is this mysterious shooter? Well, it all starts with this guy, John Muhammad.
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