Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad is asking prosecutors in a letter to help him end legal appeals of his conviction and death sentence "so that you can murder this innocent black man."
In a two-page letter obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday, Muhammad said he has tried to stop his defense attorneys from pursuing the appeals, and that he was counting on the state attorney general to assist him.
Muhammad told the prosecutors' office that he is waiving all rights to appeal his 2003 conviction and death sentence for the sniper killings in 2002 that terrorized the Washington region.
"I've written to you all because I know you will make sure this letter will get to the right people -- so that you can murder this innocent black man," Muhammad wrote in the letter, dated April 23.
In the letter, Muhammad writes in the margin, "Muhammad innocent and on death row."
Oh go fuck yourself. This bit of self righteous bullshit, coupled with playing the race card isn't going to sway anyone, including people in the black community. Simply put, Muhammad was caught red handed with the murder weapon, and he's still denying his guilt?
It's be one thing if he had his accomplice murder someone, and he went to the police immediately and said "my friend went nuts", but this shooting spree went on for months. He knew exactly what he was doing and he knew right from wrong.
You want to drop your appeals? Great, we'll get the needle ready.
What about your letters to the police?
The shooter attempted to engage the police in a dialogue, compelling Moose to tell the media cryptic messages intended for the sniper. At several scenes Tarot cards were left as calling cards, including one Death card upon which was written “Dear Policeman, I am God. Do not tell the media about this.” This information was leaked to the press. Later scenes had long, handwritten notes carefully sealed inside plastic bags, including a rambling one that demanded $10,000,000 and threatened the lives of children in the area.
Threatening children? What the fuck is wrong with you? You deserve to die simply for that threat alone.
What about the people you injured and killed?
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At 7:41 am, James L. Buchanan, a 39-year-old landscaper known as "Sonny," was shot dead in Montgomery County near Rockville, Maryland. Buchanan was shot while mowing the grass at the Fitzgerald Auto Mall.
Montgomery County
The main shootings associated with the Beltway Sniper incident began on October 2, 2002, with one victim killed that evening in Aspen Hill, Maryland. Four more victims were killed the next morning, and a sixth killed in the evening on October 3, 2002. All shootings happened within a few miles of each other. Normally a safe area, the killing spree increased the murder rate by 25% within a span of 20 hours.[1]
At 5:20 pm, a shot was fired through a window of a Michaels Craft Store in Aspen Hill. As no one was injured, no serious alarms were raised.[2] About an hour later, at 6:30 pm, James Martin, a 55-year-old program analyst at NOAA, was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Shoppers Food Warehouse grocery store, located in Glenmont.[3]
On the morning of October 3, four people were shot within a span of approximately 2 hours in Aspen Hill, and other nearby areas in Montgomery County. Another was killed that evening in the District of Columbia, just over the border from Silver Spring.
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At 8:12 am, 54-year-old part-time taxi driver Premkumar Walekar was killed in Aspen Hill in Montgomery County while pumping gasoline into his taxi at a Mobil station at Aspen Hill Road and Connecticut Avenue.
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Sarah Ramos, a 34-year-old babysitter and housekeeper, was killed at 8:37 am at the Leisure World Shopping Center in Aspen Hill. She had gotten off a bus, and was seated on a bench, reading a book.[3]
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At 9:58 am, in what was to be the last killing of the morning, 25-year-old Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera was killed while vacuuming her Dodge Caravan at a Shell station in Kensington, Maryland.
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The snipers then waited until 9:15 pm before shooting Pascal Charlot, a 72-year-old retired carpenter, while he was walking on Georgia Avenue at Kalmia Road, in Washington, D.C. Charlot died less than an hour later.
In each shooting, the victims were killed by a single bullet fired from some distance. The pattern was not detected until after the shootings occurred on October 3.[1]
Fear quickly spread throughout the community as news of the shootings spread. Many parents went to pick up their children at school early, not allowing them to take a school bus or walk home alone. Montgomery County Public Schools, District of Columbia Public Schools, and private schools went into a lockdown, with no recess or outdoor gym classes. Other school districts in the area also took precautionary measures, keeping students indoors.[4]
[edit] Other areas
At this point Malvo and Muhammad started covering a wider area and taking more time between shootings. On October 4, 43-year-old Caroline Seawell was wounded at 2:30 pm in the parking lot of a Michael's Craft Store at Spotsylvania Mall in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, just outside the city of Fredericksburg, while she was loading purchases into her minivan.
On October 7, at 8:09 am, Iran Brown, a 13-year-old boy, was wounded as he arrived to the Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, Maryland, in Prince George's County. (Brown's name was at first concealed from the public, but has since been revealed.) At this crime scene the authorities discovered a Tarot card (the Death card), as well as a shell casing.
Two days later, on October 9 at 8:18 pm, 53-year-old Dean Harold Meyers was shot dead while pumping gasoline at a station in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas.
Again, two days later, on the morning of October 11 at 9:30 am, 53-year-old Kenneth Bridges died while pumping fuel at an Exxon station off Interstate 95 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near Fredericksburg.
On October 14, at 9:15 pm, 47-year-old Linda Franklin, an FBI intelligence analyst who was a resident of Arlington County, Virginia, was shot dead after she finished shopping at a Home Depot in Fairfax County, Virginia, just outside Falls Church. The police received what seemed to be a very good lead after the October 14 shooting, but it was later determined that the witness was inside the Home Depot at the time and was lying. The witness was subsequently arrested for interfering with the investigation.
After a five day interval, 37-year-old Jeffrey Hopper was shot on October 19 at 8:00 pm in a parking lot near the Ponderosa steakhouse in Ashland, Virginia, about 90 miles south of Washington, near Interstate 95. Authorities discovered a 4-page letter from the shooter in the woods.
On October 21, Richmond-area police arrested two men, one with a white van, outside a gas station. The men turned out to be illegal immigrants with no connection to the shooter and they were remanded to the custody of what was then the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which subsequently deported them.
The next day, October 22, bus driver Conrad Johnson was shot dead at 5:56 am while standing on the steps of his bus in Aspen Hill, Maryland. Chief Moose released part of the content of one of the shooter's communications, in which he declares, "Your children are not safe, anywhere, at any time."
While no shootings occurred on October 23, the day is significant for two events. First, ballistics experts confirmed Johnson as the tenth fatality in the Beltway shootings. But in a yard in Tacoma, Washington, near a sniper school operated by the United States Army, police searched with metal detectors for bullets, shell casings, or other evidence which might provide a link to the shooters. A tree stump believed to have been used for target practice was seized.
You are FAR from innocent and deserve to die for your crimes.
Travis
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