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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2002
Prosecutor says suspected sniper may have shot FBI analyst
The Associated Press
SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. — The teenager arrested in the sniper slayings may have fired the shot that killed an FBI analyst, a prosecutor said yesterday as Virginia charged both suspects with crimes that could bring the death penalty.
John Lee Malvo, 17, and John Allen Muhammad, 41, now face murder charges in both Virginia and Maryland in the three-week series of attacks that killed 10 people and wounded three. Alabama has charged them in a killing during a robbery. No decision had been made yet on federal charges.
Fairfax County prosecutor Robert Horan Jr, said evidence shows that Malvo may have fired the shot that killed Linda Franklin on Oct. 14 outside a Home Depot in Falls Church. He would not elaborate on the evidence.
"There will be some evidence that the juvenile was the shooter just like there will be evidence that the adult was the shooter," Horan said. "But the point is, we don't know right now, and no one knows right now."
The pair were charged in Spotylvania County with the murder of Kenneth Bridges on Oct. 11 and the Oct. 4 wounding of an unidentified woman. The murder charges were based on state law
allowing capital punishment for the killing of more than one person within three years.
In Prince William County, where Dean Meyers was slain Oct. 9 while pumping gas, a grand jury charged Muhammad and Malvo with capital murder and conspiracy to commit murder under a new post-Sept. 11 terrorism law.
Prince William prosecutor Paul Ebert said that law would allow the death penalty for both men — even the man who did not pull the trigger.
Virginia Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore said the terrorism law gives Virginia prosecutors a "backup, another option in their
arsenal" to seek the death penalty against Muhammad or Malvo i either eludes a death sentence for capital murder.
That boosts the case for allowing Virginia to try the suspects promptly, if not first, Kilgore said.
"The terrorism law includes not only the shooter but the masterminds behind these acts," Kilgore said. "We feel very confident that what these individuals have done fits within the definition of terrorism in this law."
In Hanover County, where an unidentified man was wounded on Oct. 19, the two suspects were also named in a variety of charges including attempted murder and terrorizing the public.
In all three Virginia counties, the charges against Malvo were made in juvenile court, but authorities said they would seek to have his case transferred to adult court.
County, state and federal prosecutors have yet to figure out who will bring the two men to trial first.
Spotsylvania County Sheriff Ronald Knight said Muhammad and Malvo should be tried in Virginia as soon as possible. "Everybody is looking for that to happen since Virginia has the death penalty" for both adults and juveniles, the sheriff said.
In Maryland, 17-year-olds are not eligible for the death penalty.
Virginia, which allows condemned prisoners to choose between lethal injection and the electric chair, has executed 86 people since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, more than any other state except Texas. In the same period, Maryland has executed three people and is one of two states with a moratorium on executions.
There is no death penalty in the District of Columbia, where one person was killed.
Over the weekend, Montgomery County, Md., prosecutor Douglas Gansler said he believes his state should prosecute the men first, in part because Maryland had the most slaying; six.
Russia used opiate gas to free hostages, Pentagon says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—The mysterious gas Russian forces pumped into a theater to end a hostage crisis was an opiate—a chemical related to morphine, Pentagon officials said yesterday.
The Bush administration, meanwhile, refused to criticize Russian special forces for using the gas, which killed 116 of the hostages as well as the hostage
takers.
The State Department said an American hostage died during the operation.
U. S. officials found a body believed to be that of Sandy Alan Booker, 49, who was visiting Moscow from Oklahoma and had been reported missing by his friends and family. U.S. officials wouldn't publicly identify the victim, citing privacy concerns.
"The president abhors the loss
of life, but he understands that it is the terrorists" who are responsible for the tragedy, spokesman Ari Fleischer said yesterday as President Bush traveled to New Mexico.
Military officials said the U.S. Embassy in Moscow had determined that the gas used by the Russians was some sort of opium derivative.
Such substances not only kill pain and dull the senses but also
can cause coma and death by shutting down breathing and circulation.
Russian authorities have refused to name the substance used, even keeping that information from doctors treating the rescued hostages.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the United States, as well as other countries, have asked the Russians to identify the gas they used.
"We are trying to get at that information," Boucher said. "That knowledge is also needed by the doctors.
"We're awaiting (the) response, but at this point, we just don't have the response."
Fleischer did not endorse the tactic in remarks to reporters as Bush flew from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, to Phoenix, then from Arizona to New Mexico. But he made clear the administration's
But, he said, "As that information is developed, the president feels very strongly that the people who caused this are the terrorists."
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Asked directly about the use of the gas, Fleischer wouldn't say whether the administration believed it was appropriate. "We don't know what all the facts are," he said.
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