Lt. Col. David Grossman S Referenced Acts of Violence

Lt. Col. David Grossman’s Referenced Acts of Violence

April 26, 2002
Erfurt, Germany 13 teachers, two students, and one policeman killed, ten wounded by Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, at the Johann Gutenberg secondary school. Steinhaeuser then killed himself

Feb. 2, 1996
Moses Lake, Wash. Two students and one teacher killed, one other wounded when 14-year-old Barry Loukaitis opened fire on his algebra class.

Oct. 1, 1997
Pearl, Miss. Two students killed and seven wounded by Luke Woodham, 16, who was also accused of killing his mother. He and his friends were said to be outcasts who worshiped Satan.

Dec. 1, 1997
West Paducah, Ky. Three students killed, five wounded by Michael Carneal, 14, as they participated in a prayer circle at Heath High School.

March 24, 1998
Jonesboro, Ark. Four students and one teacher killed, ten others wounded outside as Westside Middle School emptied during a false fire alarm. Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, shot at their classmates and teachers from the woods.

April 24, 1998
Edinboro, Pa. One teacher, John Gillette, killed, two students wounded at a dance at James W. Parker Middle School. Andrew Wurst, 14, was charged.

May 21, 1998
Springfield, Ore. Two students killed, 22 others wounded in the cafeteria at Thurston High School by 15-year-old Kip Kinkel. Kinkel had been arrested and released a day earlier for bringing a gun to school. His parents were later found dead at home.

April 20, 1999
Littleton, Colo. 14 students (including killers) and one teacher killed, 23 others wounded at Columbine High School in the nation's deadliest school shooting. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, had plotted for a year to kill at least 500 and blow up their school. At the end of their hour-long rampage, they turned their guns on themselves.

Seven Inmates on the Run After Well-Planned Breakout
K E N E D Y, Texas, Dec. 13

Seven inmates, including two San Antonio-area convicted murderers, escaped from a South Texas prison today after overpowering seven civilian employees and a Connally Unit corrections officer.

They made their getaway in a stolen pickup about 2 p.m. local time and are believed to be armed with guns stolen from the prison, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Larry Todd.

“It appears this escape was well-planned,” Todd said.

The prison is about two miles south of Kenedy, which is 50 miles southeast of San Antonio.

The agency identified the escaped convicts as Joseph Garcia, Michael Rodriguez, Randy Halprin, Donald Newbury, Larry Harper, George Rivas and Patrick Murphy Jr. Garcia, 29, was serving 50 years for murder and Rodriguez, 38, was serving a life sentence for capital murder.

Well-Orchestrated Plan The seven male civilian employees working in the maintenance shop with the inmates, who were trusties in the shop, suffered minor injuries and were left locked in a room after the breakout. They were treated at the unit infirmary, Todd said.

The inmates, dressed in civilian clothing stolen from the workers, were able to surprise a guard near the back gate and overpower him, Todd said. They stole his gun and several weapons from a nearby guard tower.

“The weapons are a shotgun and some pistols,” Todd said. “They did escape with an unknown number of weapons.”

The convicts also stole the officer’s uniform and fled in the white prison system truck, which later was found behind the Wal-Mart in Kenedy. There were no immediate reports of other vehicles being stolen.

“We’re still checking for not only all of our vehicles at the unit, but employee vehicles,” Todd said. The inmates mixed other vehicle keys in a pile to hamper efforts to follow them, Todd said.

Prison authorities were questioning the three trusties who were working in the shop but did not escape.

Trusty Status: The Key to Escape? The Connally Unit has been locked down as Karnes County deputies, Department of Public Safety troopers and prison system officers converged on the area.

All of the escapees were convicted of violent offenses but had clean enough records behind bars to earn trusty status in the maintenance shop, Todd said. Information released about the other escapees included:

Rivas, 30, was serving 99 years for aggravated kidnapping and burglary out of El Paso County.

Newbury, 38, was serving 99 years for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon out of Travis County.

Halprin, 23, was serving 30 years for child abuse out of Tarrant County.

Harper, 37, was serving 50 years for aggravated sexual assault out of El Paso County.

Murphy, 39, was serving 50 years for aggravated sexual assault with a deadly weapon and burglary out of Dallas County.

Year of Uprisings The escape marks the fourth time this year inmates have risen up at the unit:

In late April, eight prisoners assaulted three officers, inflicting minor injuries. Then on June 7, an inmate severely beat corrections officer Irene Fonseca as she searched a cell. Though no weapon was used, a subsequent search turned up a homemade knife.

Less than a week later, corrections officer Scott Jendrzey was stabbed six times by an inmate carrying a nine-inch metal rod that had been sharpened to a point. The injuries were considered minor, prison officials said.

THE BELTWAY SNIPERS

This blue 1990 Chevy Caprice was used as a rolling sniper's nest. Five years ago this week—at 3:19 in the morning on October 24, 2002, to be exact—we closed in on the snipers who’d been terrorizing the Washington, D.C., area over the course of 23 long days. During the month, 10 people had been randomly gunned down and three critically injured while going about their everyday lives—mowing the lawn, pumping gas, shopping, reading a book. Among the victims was one of our own—FBI intelligence analyst Linda Franklin, who was felled by a single bullet while leaving a home improvement store in Virginia with her husband.

The massive investigation into the sniper attacks was led by the Montgomery County (Maryland) Police Department, headed by Chief Charles Moose, with the FBI and many other law enforcement agencies playing a supporting role. Chief Moose had specifically requested our help through a federal law on serial killings.

That morning, the hunt for the snipers quickly came to an end, when a team of Maryland State Police, Montgomery County SWAT officers, and agents from our Hostage Rescue Team arrested the sleeping John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo without a struggle.

Timeline of Terror

· October 2: Man killed while crossing a parking lot in Wheaton, Maryland

· October 3: Five more murders, four in Maryland and one in D.C.

· October 4: Woman wounded while loading her van at Spotsylvania Mall

· October 7: 13-year-old-boy wounded at a school in Bowie, Maryland

· October 9: Man murdered near Manassas, Virginia, while pumping gas

· October 11: Man shot dead near Fredericksburg, Virginia, while pumping gas

· October 14: FBI analyst Linda Franklin killed near Falls Church, Virginia

· October 19: Man wounded outside a steakhouse in Ashland, Virginia

· October 22: A bus driver, the final victim, killed in Aspen Hill, Maryland

· October 24: Muhammad and Malvo arrested in Maryland

Just a few hours earlier, at approximately 11:45 p.m., their dark blue 1990 Chevy Caprice—bearing the New Jersey license plate NDA-21Z, which had been widely publicized on the news only hours earlier—had been spotted at a rest stop parking lot off I-70 in Maryland (see photos right). Within the hour, law enforcement swarmed the scene, setting up a perimeter to check out any movements and make sure there’d be no escape. What evidence experts from the FBI and other police forces found there was both revealing and shocking. The car had a hole cut in the trunk near the license plate (see photo below, left) so that shots could be fired from within the vehicle. It was, in effect, a rolling sniper’s nest.

SOURCE: http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2007/october/snipers_102207

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