From Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points Memo: "So now it seems the DC snipers were responsible for two shootings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. That's added to the other non-DC shootings they pulled off in Washington State and Alabama. A rather different picture starts to emerge. These guys were icing people all over the place. It was only when they got to DC that anyone realized what was going on. More specifically, it was only when they shot five people in a matter of hours on (I believe it was) October 3rd that anyone really realized there was a problem. Could that have been the reason why they hit so many people on that one day? You can almost see these guys sitting around the sniper den one evening, knocking back a beer, and saying: What does a guy gotta do in this country to get some cred as a serial killer? In all seriousness, random gun killings may just have been too common a matter to arouse that much suspicion, until these two decided to pump up the volume one day in early October."
Sometimes I wish the US had some kind of "cultural exchange" program where we ship bastards like these to a country that allows cruel and unusual punishment. Just bending the principle of the 8th Amendment only a little...
I knew that a death was going to come up in Baton Rouge, and sure enough. I bet there will be some shootings that turn up in Arizona too. That's another place they stopped on their "roadtrip."
I doubt they've been able to determine every place the two stopped at yet. I don't have any links, but I'm sure they have something on CNN.com. The credit card that they stole and were trying to use to transfer the money was stolen from a women in Arizona all the way back in March! I wouldn't be surprised if they've been doing this for months.
If they have indeed been doing this for months, my question is what changed? What was the motivation for them to suddenly stop moving around and concentrate on the DC area?
Weren't there some people sniped on freeways in Houston last year? I wonder if those have anything to do with it.
