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Sniper Suspects Update
Aired October 31, 2002 - 10:26 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Want to bring you up to date now on the sniper story. There are several new developments to pass along, including reports of possible links to the alleged shoe bomber and the possibility of a third suspect.
For the latest, we're going to check in with our Patty Davis. She is at our investigation desk in Washington.
Patty, just when this thing seems to be quieting down a bit, more and more questions -- good morning.
PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: More development. Good morning.
Well, Montgomery, Alabama Police Chief John Wilson at first said that he believed a .22 caliber handgun might have been used in the shooting of two woman -- two women on September 21 in Montgomery outside a liquor store. One woman died, the other was badly wounded. Witnesses saw John Muhammad and John Lee Malvo at the scene and they saw them with a handgun. But CNN has learned that new ballistics tests show that the Bushmaster rifle used in the Washington, D.C. area sniper shootings was also used in the Alabama killing.
Now since no one sought these two men with the rifle, it does now raise the possibility that there could have been a third person involved in that shooting. Muhammad and Malvo have been charged with capital murder in that case. Now that case helped lead investigators here in the D.C. area to the pair. Investigators looking into the sniper killings here say that they do not think anyone else was involved in the D.C. slayings, but they're not ruling anything out.
Now in -- meanwhile, investigators on the Caribbean island of Antigua looking into Muhammad and Malvo's activities there tell CNN it does not appear that the men had any connection to shoe bomber Richard Reid. Reid pleaded guilty to attempting to bring down his flight from Paris to Miami and then that flight going on to Antigua last year with a shoebomb. In fact, the attorney leading that investigation in Antigua tells me that Muhammad left Antigua six months before that flight would have arrived.
Now meanwhile, CNN has obtained exclusive pictures of Malvo as a child in Jamaica, as you see here. Now we're told Malvo not being cooperative with investigators on the sniper case. Muhammad, apparently, has talked a bit but provided no relevant information -- Daryn.
KAGAN: Patty Davis, thank you for all those updates. Appreciate it. Also want to remind our viewers that tonight our Connie Chung will talk to the wife of the man at the heart and soul of the sniper investigation in Montgomery County, Maryland. His wife of Police Chief Charles Moose. That is Connie Chung at 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 Pacific. A lot of people curious about Chief Moose will learn more by meeting his wife tonight, 8:00 p.m.
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Aired October 31, 2002 - 10:26 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Want to bring you up to date now on the sniper story. There are several new developments to pass along, including reports of possible links to the alleged shoe bomber and the possibility of a third suspect.
For the latest, we're going to check in with our Patty Davis. She is at our investigation desk in Washington.
Patty, just when this thing seems to be quieting down a bit, more and more questions -- good morning.
PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: More development. Good morning.
Well, Montgomery, Alabama Police Chief John Wilson at first said that he believed a .22 caliber handgun might have been used in the shooting of two woman -- two women on September 21 in Montgomery outside a liquor store. One woman died, the other was badly wounded. Witnesses saw John Muhammad and John Lee Malvo at the scene and they saw them with a handgun. But CNN has learned that new ballistics tests show that the Bushmaster rifle used in the Washington, D.C. area sniper shootings was also used in the Alabama killing.
Now since no one sought these two men with the rifle, it does now raise the possibility that there could have been a third person involved in that shooting. Muhammad and Malvo have been charged with capital murder in that case. Now that case helped lead investigators here in the D.C. area to the pair. Investigators looking into the sniper killings here say that they do not think anyone else was involved in the D.C. slayings, but they're not ruling anything out.
Now in -- meanwhile, investigators on the Caribbean island of Antigua looking into Muhammad and Malvo's activities there tell CNN it does not appear that the men had any connection to shoe bomber Richard Reid. Reid pleaded guilty to attempting to bring down his flight from Paris to Miami and then that flight going on to Antigua last year with a shoebomb. In fact, the attorney leading that investigation in Antigua tells me that Muhammad left Antigua six months before that flight would have arrived.
Now meanwhile, CNN has obtained exclusive pictures of Malvo as a child in Jamaica, as you see here. Now we're told Malvo not being cooperative with investigators on the sniper case. Muhammad, apparently, has talked a bit but provided no relevant information -- Daryn.
KAGAN: Patty Davis, thank you for all those updates. Appreciate it. Also want to remind our viewers that tonight our Connie Chung will talk to the wife of the man at the heart and soul of the sniper investigation in Montgomery County, Maryland. His wife of Police Chief Charles Moose. That is Connie Chung at 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 Pacific. A lot of people curious about Chief Moose will learn more by meeting his wife tonight, 8:00 p.m.
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