D.C. Sniper Police Timeline
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Updated: 2 Feb 2020
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Created byJoey ODell
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Police reveal white box truck lead after witness reported seeing white box truck when Sarah Ramos was killedPolice set up command post at a church near Mobil gas station where Prekumar A. Walker had been killedIn the afternoon, police ask citizens to call in suspicious activity to 911 and emphasize white vans. Command post is move back to the station in Rockville, Maryland.Forensics begins working on bullet fragments from the victims, and coroner conducts autopsies on victims.Investigators met to discuss anything they had determined about casePolice announced that four victims had been shot by same weapon and that they were pursuing serial killer as well as white box truck with potentially black lettering on the side.Police find tarot card at scene of Iran Brown's death at middle schoolJoint Operations Center is created by police and called SNIPEMUR.Investigators try to cross reference all owners of .223 weapons in Virginia and Maryland with owners of white vansFBI creates profile of killer for investigatorsInvestigators find map of Baltimore and Baltimore County across the street from Sunoco gas station where Dean Harold Myers died. However investigators just sent it to evidence locker and did not process or give it to task force.JOC is fully operational across from MCPD station. New tip line created just to handle calls about case.Police, for the first time, shutdown roadway system to try and find a white van leaving the scene after Kenneth H. Bridges is killedSNIPEMUR meets again and released composite graphic of white vanPolice arrested witness for lying about Linda Franklin murder a few days earlierNote discovered on scene of Jeff Hopper shootingPolice issue statement about letter and said they wanted to comply but had been unable toPolice receive call at Ponderosa but were unable to capture caller. Police release another statement telling the shooter to call again.Police discover another note, at scene of shooting of Conrad Johnson.Case is over
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