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Friday: Day D.C. Shooter Usually Hits

Aired October 18, 2002 - 10:26   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Now, let's get more on the sniper investigation in suburban Washington.
We check in with Daryn Kagan, who's at the hub of the investigation in Montgomery County.

Once again -- Daryn.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Leon, good morning to you.

Once again, as we mentioned off the top of the show, it has been about 3 1/2 days since the shooter last struck -- the longest stretch. So there is a sense of what is going to happen next here in the Washington, D.C., area. Also, it being Friday, since the shooting spree began, he has hit on every Friday.

To talk more about this, we have Mitchell Miller from WTOP. We've been listening to his voice over the last couple of weeks. And now we have him live here in person.

Good morning. Thanks for joining us.

MITCHELL MILLER, WTOP NEWS REPORTER: Good morning.

KAGAN: What about this aspect of it being Friday?

MILLER: Friday is a really rough day for this whole area. I mean you've got people who just remember what happened on those previous Fridays. And as you said, this is the longest stretch we've gone, so there's this feeling on the one hand of relief that you don't have anything happening now for several days. People are trying to get back to normal a little bit. But, at the same time, when is he going to strike again? And people always have that in the back of their mind right now.

KAGAN: And this follows the day when right over here, they announced that great eyewitness that they thought was providing all this information. They took back so many of the leads that we thought might be leading to a killer. Is the sense of frustration here not just the media? What are you hearing from your listeners on WTOP?

MILLER: I think a lot of listeners are a little bit confused sometimes, a little bit disappointed -- certainly with the developments -- I mean an eyewitness who apparently actually made up a story, and a lot of people really want to help, but they don't quite know how sometimes. They hear the latest news conference, and they find out the latest information, but then say, Well, what type of van again should I be looking for? Things have been switching over the last few days. Are we still looking for, example, a box-type truck? And so they have a lot of questions for us when they're asking: What can I do to help, because a lot of people really do want to help.

KAGAN: I mentioned this is Friday -- heading into the weekend -- this is the third weekend where activities will be canceled, especially for a lot of kids. Parents are getting a little frustrated. It's a little too long to keep the kids locked up inside the house.

MILLER: That is the truth for a lot of people that I know. For example, I talked to a friend today. His son has to go more than 100 miles to play a football game this weekend. A lot of their kids are not going to be able to take part in homecoming type of activities. Another friend of mine -- just what you just said -- he's got a couple of little guys that are real active. They are like thousands of kids across the Washington area. They want to get outside. They want to play like kids do. And they've been shut inside their school or inside their home for the last couple of weeks.

KAGAN: Let's tell our viewers, your listeners, a little bit more about this plan in Fairfax County. They didn't want to completely cancel the football games, so they're moving it. You were kind of alluding to this. They're moving 100, 150 miles away, but no one's really going to know where the game is?

MILLER: That's right. For security purposes, they don't really want to tell exactly where the games are going to be played, but all of these kids and their families and the coaches and the school staff are all going to have to jump into buses, cars, etc., and head out more than 100 miles out to all these various points where they're going to be playing football and other activities over the weekend.

KAGAN: And those are the lucky kids. Those are the ones that get to play?

MILLER: They're the ones that actually get to take the field. Right.

KAGAN: Mitchell Miller, WTOP. Thanks for all your help. Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate it. These are strange times indeed around Washington, D.C.

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Aired October 18, 2002 - 10:26   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Now, let's get more on the sniper investigation in suburban Washington.
We check in with Daryn Kagan, who's at the hub of the investigation in Montgomery County.

Once again -- Daryn.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Leon, good morning to you.

Once again, as we mentioned off the top of the show, it has been about 3 1/2 days since the shooter last struck -- the longest stretch. So there is a sense of what is going to happen next here in the Washington, D.C., area. Also, it being Friday, since the shooting spree began, he has hit on every Friday.

To talk more about this, we have Mitchell Miller from WTOP. We've been listening to his voice over the last couple of weeks. And now we have him live here in person.

Good morning. Thanks for joining us.

MITCHELL MILLER, WTOP NEWS REPORTER: Good morning.

KAGAN: What about this aspect of it being Friday?

MILLER: Friday is a really rough day for this whole area. I mean you've got people who just remember what happened on those previous Fridays. And as you said, this is the longest stretch we've gone, so there's this feeling on the one hand of relief that you don't have anything happening now for several days. People are trying to get back to normal a little bit. But, at the same time, when is he going to strike again? And people always have that in the back of their mind right now.

KAGAN: And this follows the day when right over here, they announced that great eyewitness that they thought was providing all this information. They took back so many of the leads that we thought might be leading to a killer. Is the sense of frustration here not just the media? What are you hearing from your listeners on WTOP?

MILLER: I think a lot of listeners are a little bit confused sometimes, a little bit disappointed -- certainly with the developments -- I mean an eyewitness who apparently actually made up a story, and a lot of people really want to help, but they don't quite know how sometimes. They hear the latest news conference, and they find out the latest information, but then say, Well, what type of van again should I be looking for? Things have been switching over the last few days. Are we still looking for, example, a box-type truck? And so they have a lot of questions for us when they're asking: What can I do to help, because a lot of people really do want to help.

KAGAN: I mentioned this is Friday -- heading into the weekend -- this is the third weekend where activities will be canceled, especially for a lot of kids. Parents are getting a little frustrated. It's a little too long to keep the kids locked up inside the house.

MILLER: That is the truth for a lot of people that I know. For example, I talked to a friend today. His son has to go more than 100 miles to play a football game this weekend. A lot of their kids are not going to be able to take part in homecoming type of activities. Another friend of mine -- just what you just said -- he's got a couple of little guys that are real active. They are like thousands of kids across the Washington area. They want to get outside. They want to play like kids do. And they've been shut inside their school or inside their home for the last couple of weeks.

KAGAN: Let's tell our viewers, your listeners, a little bit more about this plan in Fairfax County. They didn't want to completely cancel the football games, so they're moving it. You were kind of alluding to this. They're moving 100, 150 miles away, but no one's really going to know where the game is?

MILLER: That's right. For security purposes, they don't really want to tell exactly where the games are going to be played, but all of these kids and their families and the coaches and the school staff are all going to have to jump into buses, cars, etc., and head out more than 100 miles out to all these various points where they're going to be playing football and other activities over the weekend.

KAGAN: And those are the lucky kids. Those are the ones that get to play?

MILLER: They're the ones that actually get to take the field. Right.

KAGAN: Mitchell Miller, WTOP. Thanks for all your help. Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate it. These are strange times indeed around Washington, D.C.

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