BGuthrie Photos: MD -- South Mountain Welcome Center (where Beltway snipers were arrested)

MD -- South Mountain Welcome Center (where Beltway snipers were arrested):

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Description of Pictures: This was my first visit since they reopened it about 16 months earlier. I asked if they had any sort of indication that the snipers were arrested at this stop and the woman at the counter quickly said "No!" I said it wouldn't be a memorial to the snipers, it would be a memorial to their capture. She said the trucker didn't want any publicity for reporting on the people. Okay...

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SNIPVC_120203_19.JPG: THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM, fought fourteen miles from here on September 17, 1862, was a pivotal Union victory, encouraging President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
2. SNIPVC_120203_29.JPG: Freedom seekers on the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD crossed the Potomac River and traveled north through these mountains to reach freedom's border -- the Mason and Dixon Line.
3. SNIPVC_120203_30.JPG: THE HISTORIC NATIONAL ROAD -- "The Road that Built the Nation" -- parallels Interstate 70, connecting western settlements across the Appalachian Mountains with eastern ports since 1806.
4. SNIPVC_120203_37.JPG: FREDERICK COUNTY is home to three historic covered bridges. Each has its own unique design in a photogenic setting. WASHINGTON COUNTY features 24 graceful stone-arch bridges. Burnside Bridge was a major site of Civil War action.
5. SNIPVC_120203_38.JPG: THE APPALACHIAN NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL follows the crests of South Maintain, offering spectacular hiking from Maine to Georgia.
6. SNIPVC_120203_45.JPG: The 184-mile C&O CANAL, where mule-drawn barges once lumbered alongside the Potomac River, provides a serene waterway for paddling, and a towpath for hiking, biking, and horseback riding.
Description of Subject Matter: I took pictures of this both for historical reasons and because they said the whole place was going to be torn down and rebuilt beginning in April 2008. Not because of the sniper but because they had needed to upgrade for handicap accessibility etc.

Contemporary pictures of the scene are on the FBI site at http://www.fbi.gov/page2/oct07/snipers102207.html
Wikipedia Description: Beltway sniper attacks
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The Beltway sniper attacks took place during three weeks in October 2002 in the Mid-Atlantic United States. As ten people were killed and three others critically injured in and around Washington, D.C., in various locations throughout the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia, it was widely speculated that a single sniper was using the Capital Beltway for travel, possibly in a white van or truck. It was later learned that the rampage was perpetrated by two men, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, driving a blue Chevrolet Caprice sedan, and had apparently begun the month before with murders and robbery in Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia which had resulted in three deaths. An earlier spree for which the pair was responsible had killed victims in California, Arizona, and Texas, for a total of 16 deaths identified as of March 2007.

Snipers:

Authorities initially attributed the attacks to a lone sniper, dubbed by journalists the "Beltway Sniper," the "D.C. Sniper," the "Washington Sniper," the "Serial Sniper" or the "Tarot Card Killer."

After their capture, there was much confusion about the names of the two men. The older of the pair, born John Allen Williams (age 41 at the time of capture), had joined the Black nationalist organization the Nation of Islam some years earlier, and in October 2001 had changed his name to John Allen Muhammad. The younger man was born Lee Boyd Malvo, but also calls himself John Lee Malvo and had posed as Muhammad's son (17 years old at the time of his arrest). Malvo's actual relationship with Muhammad was initially unclear, although it was later learned that Malvo was found by John in a homeless shelter after John lost custody of his children.

The two men practiced shooting in the backyard of the 3300 block of South Proctor Street in Tacoma, Washington, according to investigators, and studied the film Savior, produced by Oliver Stone. ....

Arrest:

The incident came to a close on October 24, when Muhammad and Malvo were found sleeping in their car, a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice, at a rest stop near Myersville, Maryland and arrested on federal weapons charges. Police were tipped off by a trucker, Whitney Donahue, who noticed the parked car; they also received another call from an alert motorist. A .223-caliber weapon and bipod were found in a bag in Muhammad's car. Ballistics tests later conclusively linked the seized rifle to 11 of the 14 bullets recovered from earlier attacks.
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