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Spotsylvania Mall sniper victim will not witness execution
Date published: 11/6/2009
BY DENA POTTER ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
RICHMOND --Some ache for revenge, others simply for justice. There is frustration, too, and defiance.For those wounded by the D.C. snipers and for the relatives of those killed, the emotions leading up to the execution of the mastermind behind the 2002 attacks vary as widely as those who found themselves in the cross hairs. John Allen Muhammad, 48, is set to die by injection in a Virginia prison Tuesday, seven years after he and his teenage accomplice terrorized the area in and around the nation's capital for three weeks. Caroline Seawell, who was wounded outside the former Spotsylvania Mall, now the Spotsylvania Towne Centre, has moved on with her life and now lives in South Carolina. She has no desire to see the execution. Members of other families can't wait to see Muhammad take his final breath. Others plan to make the trip to Virginia but never set foot on prison grounds. And there are those who plan to spend the night at home with their families, satisfied that Muhammad is paying for what he's done but indifferent about how it will happen. SHOOTING MADE SPOTSY VICTIM STRONGER Seawell has refused to live the last seven years as a victim. Her ribs are deformed and there's a piece of mesh covering a hole in her diaphragm. But Seawell has had no major medical problems since a sniper's bullet tore into her back and through several organs as she loaded Halloween decorations into her minivan. She and her family moved from Spotsylvania to South Carolina not long after the shooting outside a Spotsylvania Michael's craft store. Her youngest son, now 11, doesn't even know about the shooting. "I've been really good about being able to kind of just put it behind me," Seawell said. "I've been able to just continue on with my life." In that defiant spirit, Seawell said she will not travel to Virginia to watch Muhammad take his last breath. He deserves to die for what he's done, she said, but after watching both parents die from cancer, she has no desire to witness another death. "There was enough killing already with all of us," she said. If anything, Seawell says the shooting has made her stronger. If given the chance, she'd like to tell Muhammad and Malvo just that.
Date published: 11/6/2009
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