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Sheriff recalls terror and intensity of case
Sheriff Smith recalls the sniper daysDate published: 11/8/2009 BY DICK HAMMERSTROM Spotsylvania Sheriff Howard Smith remembers the day his county became part of the Beltway Sniper case. On Oct. 4, 2002, an unseasonably warm day in the 80s, he was notified of a shooting outside Michaels craft store at the Spotsylvania Mall. Deputies wanted him there because the media was expected soon. "I thought it was some sort of domestic shooting," Smith said. He was vaguely aware of news reports of a series of shooting in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, but didn't pay much attention to them because, "I never thought it would come down here." Caroline Seawell, a 43-year-old mother of three, was shot and wounded about 2:30 p.m. as she returned to her minivan in the parking lot. No assailants were seen. Crime scene investigators dug a bullet slug from her car. That evening, investigators from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms found it matched those found in the six fatal shootings in Washington and Montgomery County. Seawell became the seventh victim--and first survivor--of the snipers. A MASSIVE INVESTIGATION Less than two months earlier, Smith had disbanded the Lisk-Silva Task Force, a coalition of local, state and federal investigators that for nearly six years had worked to find the killer of three teenage girls from Spotsylvania. They set up offices at the former hospital building on Fall Hill Avenue. The phone lines and computers were still connected. "We went right back in there," Smith said. "The same people we already knew each other. It went so smoothly." Smith, now in his second term as Spotsylvania sheriff, also became part of the law enforcement group that appeared on TV news regularly with Montgomery County, Md., Police Chief Charles Moose, the lead spokesman for the sniper task force. Before the shooting ended, 10 people in Virginia, Maryland and D.C. would die and three would be wounded by the shooters. They were finally captured Oct. 24, 2002, while sleeping in a rest area in Maryland. Lee Boyd Malvo, a juvenile at the time, will spend the rest of his life in prison. John Allen Muhammad faces execution by lethal injection Tuesday in the state prison in Greensville.
Date published: 11/8/2009
easy way out Justareader?
(posted by
peachesmom
, Nov. 9, 2009 7:09 pm)
Come on easy way out? So I and the rest of us should support this evil for the rest of his life? I think not. The families deserve justice and this is justice. If we enforced the death penalty more we would have less of this. What about the man that killed 4 woman got death penalty they let him out for over crowding he killed some more. This is not only the just way but most likely the most humane way for the criminal think about it.
An eye for an eye
(posted by
Nya_nyas
, Nov. 9, 2009 12:09 pm)
I hope they turn down his appeal. Quit wasting our tax dollars on such a worthless human being. Either way, the Lord will see to it that he gets proper punishment.
death penalty for murder is
(posted by
psalm14415
, Nov. 9, 2009 7:53 am)
set apart from death penalty for any other offense. God established death penalty for murder long before the Law of Moses. (Gen 9:6) "Whoso sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man". The purpose for death penalty has nothing to do with vengeance, because God says in another place that vengeance belongs to the Lord alone. Yet here God says that executing the murderer is man's responsibility.
ANd the sherff did what?
(posted by
1958
, Nov. 9, 2009 12:00 am)
Spotsy Sheriff Howard Smith remembers the day HIS county became part of the Beltway Sniper case
Deputies wanted him there because the media was expected soon."I thought it was some kind domestic shooting," Smith said. He was vaguely aware of news reports of a series of shooting in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, but didn't pay much attention to them , "I never thought it would come down here.
( hes good at talking to the news people?He does not know whats going on in the state?Now thisis his county
Night night...
(posted by
Blk97F150
, Nov. 8, 2009 6:47 pm)
Say goodnight Johnny boy... your days on the top side of the grass are few!
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