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Police say they received a message at the scene
Police believe the sniper who has killed nine people in the Washington area may have left them a message at the scene of shooting on Saturday, reports say. Police sources told American journalists they think it was the sniper who left them a message with a number at a restaurant in Ashland, where a man was shot and seriously wounded.
In a cryptic statement, the police chief investigating the sniper attacks, Charles Moose, appealed for the person who left the message to call the police.
Saturday's attack has still not been conclusively linked to the sniper attacks - but police said they were working on the assumption that the man was a victim of the sniper who has spread panic in the states of Virginia, Maryland and the capital itself. strained-looking Chief Moose asked the media to carry his appeal to the mystery person "clearly and carry it often".
He refused to take questions from reporters and police spokeswoman Joyce Utter, interviewed directly afterwards, gave no new details.
It is not known how the message was left.
"To the person who left the message, it should make complete sense. That is the only person Chief Moose wants to talk to," officer Utter said.
Earlier in the inquiry, police condemned the media for reporting leaked information about a message possibly left by the sniper.
Near a Maryland school were a boy was shot and wounded on 7 October a tarot card was reportedly found with the words: "Dear Policeman, I am God."
Single bullet
The unidentified victim of Saturday's attack is critically ill in hospital but expected to survive. He was hit by a single shot to the abdomen as he left the Ponderosa diner with his wife in the town of Ashland, Hanover County, 70 miles (110 kilometres) south of Washington.
Surgeons were only able to remove the bullet from his body late on Sunday - it has been sent for tests.
So far all the attacks positively linked to the sniper have involved a single bullet from a high-powered rifle.
Secret service agents and a sniper task force rushed to the area after the latest shooting and nearby highways were sealed off as police checked vehicles all the way to the Washington area. If confirmed, the shooting will be the sniper's 12th attack since 2 October.
Local media reports say officers are again looking for a white van with a ladder rack - similar alerts were issued after several of the sniper shootings.
The sniper last struck on Monday, when he killed a 47-year-old woman in the car park of a DIY shop in Virginia.
The victims have all apparently been picked at random in Virginia, the neighbouring state of Maryland and Washington DC, some of them picked off as they were filling their cars at petrol stations.
Such is the terror the sniper attacks have inspired, that some drivers are now reportedly paying $25 a time to have their cars refuelled for them.
If Saturday's attack is definitively linked to the sniper, it will be the first such attack on a weekend and the furthest yet from the US capital.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2345067.stm
Police believe the sniper who has killed nine people in the Washington area may have left them a message at the scene of shooting on Saturday, reports say. Police sources told American journalists they think it was the sniper who left them a message with a number at a restaurant in Ashland, where a man was shot and seriously wounded.
In a cryptic statement, the police chief investigating the sniper attacks, Charles Moose, appealed for the person who left the message to call the police.
Saturday's attack has still not been conclusively linked to the sniper attacks - but police said they were working on the assumption that the man was a victim of the sniper who has spread panic in the states of Virginia, Maryland and the capital itself. strained-looking Chief Moose asked the media to carry his appeal to the mystery person "clearly and carry it often".
He refused to take questions from reporters and police spokeswoman Joyce Utter, interviewed directly afterwards, gave no new details.
It is not known how the message was left.
"To the person who left the message, it should make complete sense. That is the only person Chief Moose wants to talk to," officer Utter said.
Earlier in the inquiry, police condemned the media for reporting leaked information about a message possibly left by the sniper.
Near a Maryland school were a boy was shot and wounded on 7 October a tarot card was reportedly found with the words: "Dear Policeman, I am God."
Single bullet
The unidentified victim of Saturday's attack is critically ill in hospital but expected to survive. He was hit by a single shot to the abdomen as he left the Ponderosa diner with his wife in the town of Ashland, Hanover County, 70 miles (110 kilometres) south of Washington.
Surgeons were only able to remove the bullet from his body late on Sunday - it has been sent for tests.
So far all the attacks positively linked to the sniper have involved a single bullet from a high-powered rifle.
Secret service agents and a sniper task force rushed to the area after the latest shooting and nearby highways were sealed off as police checked vehicles all the way to the Washington area. If confirmed, the shooting will be the sniper's 12th attack since 2 October.
Local media reports say officers are again looking for a white van with a ladder rack - similar alerts were issued after several of the sniper shootings.
The sniper last struck on Monday, when he killed a 47-year-old woman in the car park of a DIY shop in Virginia.
The victims have all apparently been picked at random in Virginia, the neighbouring state of Maryland and Washington DC, some of them picked off as they were filling their cars at petrol stations.
Such is the terror the sniper attacks have inspired, that some drivers are now reportedly paying $25 a time to have their cars refuelled for them.
If Saturday's attack is definitively linked to the sniper, it will be the first such attack on a weekend and the furthest yet from the US capital.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2345067.stm
