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cleoenfaserum · 6 months

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WASHINGTON DC

...a dorian gray picture of its soul.

This is a city everyone has heard off, one way or another, throughout the world. For better or for worse, its decisions effects and has effected millions of lives and has caused many millions of death around the world. We are not going to debate the morality of power and money of some of the people who are elected to represent us in this machine of government. However, in this blog we or not going to talk about politics but crimes. Some people may even fine relief that we are not going to talk about politics making crime seem petty in comparison. The more episodes I see of Marcus Sakey, the more I enjoy the series in crescendo. Many of the stories he deals with I remember having lived through them on the news.

Of the three stories, I am going to focus on is the Beltway Snipers, mainly because of the news coverage that put the fear of God in all of us at the time. I was living in the states then. But the story that most seem to effect me was the FBI woman agent who was killed at a gas station, if I remember correctly.

The D.C. sniper attacks (also known as the Beltway sniper attacks) were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October 2002 throughout the Washington metropolitan area, consisting of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, and preliminary shootings, that consisted of murders and robberies in several states, and lasted for six months starting in February 2002. Seven people were killed and seven others were injured in the preliminary shootings, and ten people were killed and three others were critically wounded in the October shootings. In total, the snipers killed 17 people and wounded 10 others in a 10-month span. (Wikipedia)

But here are today's 3 stories without a dull moment masterly told by Marcus.

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Blue Caprice is a 2013 American independent drama film directed by Alexandre Moors, and based on the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks. The film stars Isaiah Washington and Tequan Richmond as the perpetrators of the attacks, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo, respectively, although the two are only referred to by their first names. It recounts how Lee, a lone teenager, was drawn into the shadow of John, who served as a father figure to him, and how they eventually began their killing spree. (Wikipedia)

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D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear (also known as Sniper: 23 Days of Fear in Washington D.C.) is a 2003 TV movie created by USA Network based on the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002.

The films chronicles the period when John Allen Muhammad (played by Bobby Hosea) and Lee Boyd Malvo (played by Trent Cameron) went on a serial killing spree in October 2002 in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland, all parts of the Washington Metropolitan Area, the entire area of which was held in a "grip of terror." (Wikipedia)

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Broadcast of the CSI: Miami episode "Kill Zone" had to be postponed into November 2002 because the story of a sniper killing three random victims at rush hour seemed to bear too close a resemblance to the Beltway attacks.

On May 14, 2003, Law & Order aired an episode titled "Sheltered", which contains many similar elements to the D.C. sniper attacks.

On July 12, 2003, Forensic Files aired an episode titled "The Sniper's Trail", which documents the D.C. sniper attacks and subsequent police investigation.

On October 12, 2003, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye aired an episode titled "The Sniper", which contains many similar elements to the D.C. sniper attacks.

On October 17, 2003, the USA Network's U.S. cable station aired D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear, a television movie based on the D.C. sniper attacks.

On November 10, 2005, an episode about the killings entitled “The Washington Snipers” of the British documentary series Born to Kill? aired.

During the fall of 2007, BET showcased a documentary on the Beltway Snipers in its American Gangster series.

The June 2008, the documentary The D.C. Sniper's Wife told the D.C sniper attacks story through the eyes of Mildred Muhammad, ex-wife of John Allen Muhammad.

On November 9, 2009, Mildred Muhammad appeared on CNN's Larry King Live the day before her ex-husband's execution.

The 2010 film D.C. Sniper, directed by Ulli Lommel, is based on the attacks.

On August 9, 2010, The Biography Channel aired an episode of Aftermath with William Shatner, titled "DC Sniper Victims" in which the actor William Shatner spoke at length with three survivors of the sniper attacks—Paul LaRuffa, Kellie Adams, and Caroline Seawell.

The 2013 film Blue Caprice, also known as The Washington Snipers in some regions, is based on the attacks and the relationship between Muhammad and Malvo.

On July 22, 2015, Lifetime Movie Network aired an episode of Monster in My Family featuring Mildred Muhammad meeting with surviving victims along with family members of the deceased, with Lee Malvo also appearing in the episode while in prison.[82]

On June 23, 2023, Netflix aired an episode Catching Killers, titled "Trained to Kill: The DC Sniper" (Wikipedia)

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brookstonalmanac · 7 months

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Events 10.2

829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor. 939 – Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes. 1263 – The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots. 1470 – The Earl of Warwick's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne. 1552 – Russo-Kazan Wars: Russian troops enter Kazan. 1780 – American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army. 1789 – The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification. 1835 – Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia. 1864 – American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensues. 1870 – By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept annexation by the Kingdom of Italy. 1920 – Ukrainian War of Independence: Mikhail Frunze orders the Red Army to immediately cease hostilities with the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine. 1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded. 1937 – Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the border region of the Dominican Republic. 1942 – World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa. 1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising. 1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.[ 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.[18] 1968 – Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics. 1970 – An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people. 1971 – South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election. 1971 – British European Airways Flight 706 crashes near Aarsele, Belgium, killing 63. 1980 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War. 1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132. 1992 – Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead. 1996 – Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board. 1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton. 2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and killing 10 people. 2004 – The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK. 2006 – Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States. 2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. 2016 – Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people. 2018 – The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. 2019 – A privately-owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven.

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jhorton2003-blog · 8 months

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Black Serial Killers: The D.C Sniper Beltway Attacks

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the-penny-dreadfuls · 5 years

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On October 1st, 2004 the Brookside Gardens of Wheaton, Maryland opened a new addition to their award-winning gardens. Suitably named the Reflection Terrance, this small, peaceful park was created in memory of the ten victims of the Beltway Sniper Attacks. The names of the victims have been carved into a large stone. On the other side, there is a carefully written statement from the community.

Just two years prior, two gunmen terrorized people living in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. The harrowing three weeks of seemingly random shootings came to an end on October 24, 2002, with the arrest of the killers. These attacks left ten injured and a total of seventeen dead. Seven were murdered during preliminary shootings, beginning in February 2002 and ending in September of that year. The Beltway shootings all occurred in October. The names of the victims who died in the 10 in the Beltway sniper attacks have been carved into a large stone.

The Reflection Terrence has become a place where people of the community can come together to reflect on the tragedy and the precious lives that were lost in it.

#DC Sniper Attacks #Beltway Sniper Attacks #true crime #tcoriginal #true crime research #victims

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the-little-crime-writer · 6 years

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Beltway Sniper Attacks

At 5:20 P.M on October 2, 2002, Ann Chapman was preparing for the end of the day at the hobby retailers in Aspen Hill, Maryland, at which she worked as a cashier. With no warning, the window of the shop suddenly cracked and she felt the wind of a high-velocity .223 rifle bullet crack past her head, so close that it touched her hair. She had just survived the first attempted killing by the individual who would become known as the Beltway Sniper (so called because he seemed to use the Washington Beltway road system to move between attacks), a person who for the next three weeks would terrorize the states of Washington D.C, Maryland, and Virginia. By October 24, 10 people were dead and three were seriously injured.

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Lethal Accuracy

Within 45 minutes of the shooting at Aspen Hill, the Beltway Sniper took his second shot. This time his aim was perfect-a single bullet killed 55-year old James Martin as he walked across the parking lot of a Glenmont supermarket. These incidents in themselves warranted a major police investigation, but nothing prepared the local police for what would occur the following day, Thursday October 3. Between 7:41 A.M and 9:15 P.M, the faceless sniper shot dead another five people. What was apparent was that the selection of victims had a distinctly random quality about it. They included 39-year old James Buchanan, 34-year old housecleaner Sarah Ramos, and 72-year old father of five Pascal Charlot. All had been killed in open, public locations within reach of major roadways. By the end of the day, it was not only state and Federal law enforcement agencies that were bursting into action, but also a startled urban media. Panic rippled through the public, stirred even further by the shooting of a 43-year old mother of two, Caroline Seawell as she loaded up her minivan with goods outside a mall in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. She survived, but for the citizens using and living around the Washington Beltway, casual activities such as filling the car at the gas station or using a supermarket now seemed fraught with risk.

The main figurehead of the police investigation into the murders was the police chief of Montgomery County, Charles Moose. The Montgomery County police, however, provided the command center for a particularly wide investigation that involved agencies such as the Virginia Department of Transportation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, and Firearms (BATF) and the FBI. All pooled their forensic and investigatory resources in an attempt to find the killer before he struck again.

Timeline of a Murder

1: October 3, 2002. 8:46 A.M Sarah Ramos, a 34-year old Salvadorean immigrant of Silver Springs, Maryland, sits on a bench outside the Leisure World Shopping Centre in Aspen Hill. Ramos works several jobs, and is waiting for a bus to come and take her to another place of work.

2: John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo are parked nearby in their blue Chevrolet Caprice. They have already shot two people dead in the last hour, one at 7:41 A.M and the next at 8:12. They spot Ramos sat on the bench, reading to pass the time.

3: Muhammad moves into the rear of the car, lying flat on the specially designed luggage compartment. In the rear of the trunk, he has already drilled two holes-one for the muzzle of the weapon, and the other for the telescopic sight of the gun. He now takes aim at Ramos.

4: 8:47 A.M Muhammad fires a single shot. Witnesses at the scene recall hearing a crack, then seeing Ramos slump forward, with blood pouring from her head. The .223 bullet from Muhammad’s Bushmaster rifle destroys Ramos’ brain and skull, killing her instantly.

5: Muhammad and Malvo, having taken a young, promising and innocent life, pull away from the scene. They kill two more people that day alone. Initial 911 calls at the scene report that the women has shot herself. Only when police investigators arrive do they realize that she has been shot by a third party.

Tarot Card Killer

Unfortunately, for many days to come the Beltway Sniper seem to have the advantage. At 8:09 A.M on Monday October 7, shortly after Charles Moose had cautiously reassured the public that there was no reason to keep children off school, the sniper put a bullet through a 13-year-old Iran Brown outside Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, Maryland. Incredibly the boy survived, but for the police it was apparent that not only was the sniper feeding off the media coverage, but he was also a potential child killer. There was another alarming development - the Death card from a pack of Tarot Cards was found at the scene of the shooting inscribed with the words “Call me God.” In addition to the title Beltway Sniper, the shooter was now also labeled the “Tarot Card Killer.” Radio and TV broadcasts were now filled with experts, real and professed, who offered profiles of the killer and suggestions as to how the police could track him down. Yet despite hurling huge law enforcement resources at the ease, the sniper seemed to remain elusive.

Finding A Killer

Between the Iran Brown shooting and October 22, five more people were shot dead by the sniper, mostly in parking lots or gas stations around Virginia and Maryland. The killer was also becoming bolder, more tatunting. He started to leave messages and letters around the scenes of the shootings, boasting to the police about his impunity while also making blackmail demands for millions of dollars and threatening that “Your children are not safe, anywhere, at anytime.”Yet the sniper’s confidence would actually be his undoing. In a mocking phone call to Chief Moose’s office, the sniper mentioned his involvement in an armed robbery in Montgomery, Alabama, in September 2002, during which a liquor store clerk was shot dead. The FBI pulled details of the crime, and obtained fingerprints from a handgun magazine dropped near the scene of the crime. The FBI ran the fingerprints through their national database, and found that they belonged to 17-year old John Lee Malvo, a known associate of 41-year old ex-soldier John Allen Muhammad. Vehicle license checks revealed that Muhammad owned a blue Chevrolet Caprice that had been checked during random traffic stops around the areas of the shootings over the past few weeks. (For many days during the investigation, the police had been looking for a white box van believed to be associated with the shootings, although investigations into this vehicle proved to be a waste of time.) On October 24, around 3 A.M., the blue Caprice was spotted in a parking lot in Frederick, Maryland. Within minutes, police and FBI tactical units surrounded the vehicle and apprehended Malvo and Muhammad, who both gave themselves up with surprising compliance. Discovered in a bag in the car was Muhammad’s Bushmaster XM-15 .223 rifle, which forensics later linked to 11 of the 14 shootings. Further investigations revealed that the Caprice had been modified so that Muhammad could lay across the floor of the trunk and shoot through a small aperture drilled into the trunk itself, a modification that explained the inability of witnesses to provide sightings of the shooter.

Profiling

John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo were a curious pair. Muhammad was the sniper-he had served in the U.S Army for nine years, during which time he saw active service in the first Gulf War (1990-1) and became classified as an expert in M16 rifle marksmanship. (The Bushmaster XM-15 is a civilian/law enforcement version of the military M16.) Malvo seemed to have simply acted as his compliant sidekick. Muhammad was actually born John Williams, but later changed his surname to reflect on a conversion to Islam in the 1980s. His life up to the murders was a litany of emotional, marital and commercial failures. If we were to spot a final catalyst for killing spree, it may have been when his (second) ex-wife won full custody of their three children, with a restraining order placed upon Muhammad. Many people go through tough lives without resorting to serial murder. During the trial in 2003, the court found both men guilty, sentencing Malvo to life imprisonment without parole and Muhammad to death. Despite his appeals, Muhammad was executed by lethal injection on November 10, 2009.

Timeline of a Murderer-the Beltway Shootings

October 2, 2002 (Victim, none) At 5:20 P.M a shot fire is fired through a window of Michael’s Craft Store in Aspen Hill, Maryland. No one is injured.

October 2, 2002 (Victim-James Martin Age: 55) At 6:30 P.M. Martin is shot and killed in the parking lot of a Shoppers Food Warehouse grocery store, Glenmont.

October 3, 2002 (Victim-James L. Buchanan Age: 39) At 7:41 A.M. landscaper Buchanan is shot dead near Rockville, Maryland, while mowing the grass at the Fitzgerald Auto Mall.

October 3, 2002 (Victim-Premkumar Walekar Age: 54) At 8:12 A.M. part-time taxi driver is killed in Aspen Hill in Montgomery County, while filling his car at Mobil gas station.

October 3, 2002 (Victim-Sarah Ramos Age: 34) at 8:47 A.M. Ramos is shot and killed at Leisure World Shopping Centre in Aspen Hill, while seated on a bench, reading a book.

October 3, 2002 (Victim-Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera Age: 25) At 9:58 A.M. shot and killed while vacuuming her Dodge Caravan at a shell station in Kensington, Maryland.

October 3, 2002 (Victim-Pascal Charlot Age: 72) At 9:15 A.M. Charlot is shot while walking on Georgia Avenue at Kalmia Road, in Washington DC. He dies of his injuries shortly afterward.

October 4, 2002 (Victim-Caroline Seawell Age: 43) At 2:30 P.M. Seawell is shot in the parking lot of a Michael’s Craft Store at Spotsylvania Mall in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, while loading purchases into her minivan.

October 7, 2002 (Victim-Iran Brown Age: 13) At 8:09 A.M. Brown is shot and injured outside the Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, Maryland.

October 9, 2002 (Victim-Dean Harold Meyers Age: 53) At 8:18 P.M. Meyers is shot dead while pumping fuel at a Sunoco gas station on Sudley Road in Prince William County, Virginia.

October 11, 2002 (Victim-Kenneth Bridges Age: 53) At 9:30 A.M Bridges is shot dead while pumping fuel at an Exxon station off interstate 95 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.

October, 14, 2002 (Victim-Linda Franklin Age: 47) At 9:15 P.M. Franklin, an FBI intelligence analyst, is shot dead at a Home Depot in fairfax County, Virginia.

October 19, 2002 (Victim-Jeffrey Hopper Age: 37) At 8 P.M Hopper is shot and injured in a parking lot near the Ponderosa Steakhouse in Ashland, Virginia.

October 22, 2002 (Victim- Conrad Johnson Age: ?) At 5:56 A.M Bus driver Johnson is shot dead on the steps of his bus in Aspen Hill, Maryland.

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debra2007-blog · 3 years

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY NOVEMBER 17 2003 Washington, D.C. sniper John Muhammad convicted On November 17, 2003, ex-soldier John Muhammad is found guilty of one of a series of sniper shootings that terrorized the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area and dominated national headlines in October 2002. Police charged that Muhammad and his 17-year-old accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, killed 10 people and wounded three others during a three-week killing spree. After just over six hours of deliberation, a jury convicted Muhammad of the October 9, 2002, shooting of Dean Meyers while he pumped gas at a Sunoco station in Manassas, Virginia.

The first of the “Beltway sniper” attacks occurred on October 2, 2002, when five people died after being shot at long range over a 15-hour span in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland. Sniper-style shootings continued over the next three weeks—at gas stations and in parking lots within Washington, D.C.’s Beltway area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia. Local residents, frightened by the seemingly random nature of the shootings, which crossed racial, gender, and socioeconomic lines, crouched behind their cars while pumping gas and avoided outdoor activities. Schools held recess indoors and sports teams cancelled outdoor practices. The killers left a series of cryptic clues at crime scenes including tarot cards and notes and even called the police hotline, apparently trying to engage investigators in a dialogue.

The attacks came to an end when police arrested Muhammad and Malvo at a rest area off a Maryland highway. Their car, a dark blue Chevrolet Caprice, had been rigged with a hole in the trunk through which the shooter could fire a gun without being seen.

Muhammad, 41 at the time of the shootings, was a father of four who had been divorced twice. Although he had a clean criminal record, Mildred Mohammad, one of his former wives, had filed a restraining order against him. In 1985, Muhammad had converted to Islam, changing his name from John Allen Williams. He was reportedly a member of the Nation of Islam. In the aftermath of his arrest, police asserted that Muhammad had expressed some sympathy with the September 11 attacks and might have been acting out of anti-American sentiment. Later reports, which coincide with a letter he left on the scene of one of the murders, alleged that the murder spree was part of an attempt to extort $10 million from the government.

Muhammad served in the U.S. Army from November 1985 until he was honorably discharged as a sergeant in April 1994. He was a veteran of the first Gulf War. While in the army, he was trained as a marksman, qualifying as an ��expert” with an M-16 rifle, the highest of the army’s three levels of marksmanship for an ordinary soldier. To qualify as an expert, Muhammad would have had to hit at least 36 of 40 targets at distances ranging from 50 to 300 meters. During his arrest, police found a Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle—the civilian version of the M-16—in Muhammad’s car. All of the D.C. sniper victims had been hit by .223-caliber bullets.

In the six-week trial, the prosecution produced more than 130 witnesses and 400 pieces of evidence. Though their case was largely circumstantial—there was no eyewitness to prove that he had actually pulled the trigger—Muhammad was convicted on all four counts against him: the murder of Dean Meyers, murder with the intent to terrorize the government or public, conspiracy to commit murder, and the illegal use of a firearm.

John Muhammad was sentenced to death on March 9, 2004. He was executed on November 10, 2009. After a separate trial, Lee Boyd Malvo, who was a minor at the time of the shootings, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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tentwars2k21 · 4 years

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Ari the Arsonist

The Prologue

WARNING: SWEARING, VIOLENCE, AND MENTIONS OF FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH.

My life went to hell near the end of 2002.

“There’s an old saying in Tennessee. I know it’s in Texas, it’s probably in Tennessee,” I remember President George W. Bush mocking through the television screen, “It says ‘fool me once, shame on- shame on you’,” and everybody giggled like school children at the slaughter, “You fool me, you can’t get fooled again.”

Then, the month of October started with a bang. On its second day, the Beltway sniper attacks began.

The president was fooled for the second time in his own hood. For me, it was the first.

“Are you fucking serious,” Nell screamed, “Again?”

“What,” I washed my hands nonchalantly, “I couldn’t help it.”

I mean, I could help it, but, you see, I didn’t want to help it. There’s no fun in that: no adrenal rush. The night was cold, and I felt as though it needed some heating up. A little reward, if you will, for the hard work I’ve put in for this fucking client.

“Couldn’t help it,” Nell sounded incredulous, “That’s not a fucking reason!”

I confidently slouched into the couch, pulling off my boots and propping my feet onto the table, “Careful, Nell. You’ll blow a fuse.”

“I’ll blow a fuse,” Nell laughed like a maniac, running her hands through her hair whilst pacing around the room excitedly, “You blew up the entire fucking building! We were supposed to go in quietly, make it quick, not make it loud--”

“Did we get it,” I snapped back, cutting her off

Nell huffed in frustration, “That’s not the point.”

“Did we get it,” I restated.

Nell rolled her eyes, clenching and unclenching her fist systematically, “Like I said: Not the fucking point!”

“No,” I agreed, rising from the couch to stand toe-to-toe with my accomplice, “It was the fucking job!”

“What’s our employer gonna think, huh,” She countered, getting even closer to my face, “Our job was to blow the son of a bitch’s brains out! Not blow his fucking house up from under him!”

“I ain’t no fucking triggerman,” I screamed back, “I don’t fire fucking guns: I light mother fucking fires.”

“That wasn’t our job,” Nell roared, “So you may think you ain’t a mother fucking triggerman, but that’s not what our fucking resume says, Ari. So fuck your little pyro shit because if it blows my ass up,” She ran her hands over her face, laughing in the back of her throat, “you better fucking pray it takes you down too, because I’m gonna take your ass past death.”

“Are you threatening me,” I replied, grabbing her by the front of her shirt, “Because, if you are, I’ll light your ass up like I’m a goddamn firefighter. Then what, huh,” I pushed her back, “You gonna fucking pull a god damn Jesus and resurrect yourself? You gonna come and kill me? What? You think your little rings scare me, Nell? You think those mother fuckers scare my ass?”

Nell cocked her gun, pointing it at my chest.

I laugh in her face, grabbing the barrel of it and pulling it closer to me, “You’re gonna have to buck me, Nell, cause I ain’t about to fucking stop.”

“You’re like a fucking sister to me, Ari,” Nell confessed, “I ain’t about to clap you, even if your bitch ass deserves it.”

I huffed in disappointment, “Whether I’m like your sister or not, let me see your back, bitch.”

“Fuck you, Ari,” Nell yelled at me, walking towards the door before adding a quick, “Fuck you,” and slamming the door behind her.

That was yesterday, the third day of October. And now?

I’ve got some loose ends to tie up.

Holy shit... I mean tbh Ari and I could totally be hitmen but wtf this is already so good and interesting

-nell

#submission #p0lar0idcam

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rjzimmerman · 5 years

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Excerpt from this Sierra Club story:

Ben Lowy had been traveling the world as a war photographer for a decade when his first son was born. His career in conflict photography had begun in 2001 when, while taking time off from college, an encounter with a photo editor in Paris led him to the West Bank. The next summer, while back covering the Second Intifada, Lowy was beaten within an inch of his life.

Lowy covered a variety of dangerous conflicts in subsequent years. In 2003 he photographed the Beltway sniper attacks; he was later embedded within Iraqi and United States military units and covered the Iraq war until 2008. He worked in Afghanistan and Libya, pioneering the use of cell-phone photography for conflict photojournalism.

But the birth of his son in 2010 affirmed what Lowy had already known: his career as a war photographer wasn’t sustainable. He’d lost friends, and suffered from PTSD. He decided it was time to do something else.

After years of trying his hand at photographing most everything (“Except for weddings and bar mitzvahs,” he told Sierra), including the 2016 presidential election, Lowy was tired of dealing with people and talking politics. He wanted to take pictures of sharks.

“You’re not facing anyone who’s mad at you for being a journalist down there,” he said.

#great white sharks #Ben Lowy

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blogs-n-sheeit · 5 years

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Amok killers sentenced to death/executed in the United States (part 4)

I’m continuing where I left off last time. I read over it and found that I had missed to add a few. So without further ado, here we go!

James Eugene Schnick

Farm/Residence

Elkland, Missouri

September 25, 1987

7 dead

Handgun

Sentenced to death.

Mesac Damas

Residence

Naples, Florida

September 18, 2009

6 dead

Knife

Sentenced to death.

William Mitchell Hudson

Camp

Palestine, Texas

November 14, 2015

6 dead (2 were also beaten to death)

Gun, Beating

Sentenced to death

John Allen Muhammad

Multiple Locations

Washington, Arizona, Louisiana, Maryland, Georgia, Alabama, Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Florida(?)

February 16 - September 26, 2002 (preliminary shootings)

October 2 - 24, 2002 (sniper attacks)

17 dead, 10 wounded (10 dead in the Beltway Sniper attacks, 7 dead in preliminary shootings; 3 wounded in the Beltway Sniper attacks, 7 wounded in preliminary shootings)

Firearms

Sentenced to death. Executed by lethal injection in 2009.

(note: I’ve been unable to find a source that says how many of the victims of the Beltway Sniper attacks (along with other subsequent killings) could be tied to John Allen Muhammad alone. I know some of the murders were perpetrated solely by Lee Boyd Malvo, and others weren’t as specific as to who the gunman was. I’m just leaving this here.)

Eric Royce Leonard

Multiple Locations (including a Pizza Restaurant, earning him the nickname of “pizza thrill killer”)

Sacramento, California

February 12/19, 1991

6 dead

Handgun

Sentenced to death.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Multiple Locations (including an open street where the Boston Marathon was being held)

Waltham, Boston, Cambridge(?), and Watertown, Massachusetts

September 11, 2011; April 15 - 19, 2013

3 dead (2011 Waltham triple murder)

3 dead, 264 wounded (in Boston Marathon bombings)

1 dead (during the MIT shooting and carjacking)

2 dead (including Tamerlan Tsarnaev), 16 wounded (during the Watertown Stand-off)

Knife, Bombs, Guns, Vehicle

Sentenced to death in a federal trial, as Massachusetts doesn’t have a death penalty.

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brookstonalmanac · 2 years

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829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor. 939 – Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes. 1263 – The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots. 1470 – The Earl of Warwick's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands,[4] restoring Henry VI to the throne. 1552 – Russo-Kazan Wars: Russian troops enter Kazan. 1780 – American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army. 1789 – The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification. 1835 – Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia. 1864 – American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensues. 1870 – By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept annexation by the Kingdom of Italy. 1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded. 1937 – Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the border region of the Dominican Republic. 1942 – World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa. 1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising. 1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France. 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court. 1968 – Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics. 1970 – An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people. 1971 – South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election. 1971 – British European Airways Flight 706 crashes near Aarsele, Belgium, killing 63. 1980 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War. 1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132. 1992 – Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead. 1996 – Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board. 1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton. 2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and killing 10 people. 2004 – The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK. 2006 – Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States. 2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. 2016 – Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people. 2018 – The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. 2019 – A privately-owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven.

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