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@ On October 15, 2002 a male subject called into Rockville City 911 dispatcher and began to leave a message in which he implied he was the person responsible for these murders. This call was recorded in accordance with Rockville City Police Department policy and procedure. On October 19, 2002 a 37 year old white male was walking in the parking lot of the Ponderosa Restaurant in Ashton, Virginia, when he was shot in the stomach with a high powered firearm. He survived his injuries and is still alive. Crime scene investigation determined the shot came from nearby woods and a hand written note was found there addressed to the police by an individual who identified himself as the person responsible for these murders. Only one shot was heard. On October 22, 2002, Conrad Johnson was on a Ride-On bus stopped in the 14100 block of Grand Pre Road, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland when he was shot in the abdomen with a high powered firearm. He died a short time later. Bullet fragments were removed from his body at autopsy. A hand written note was left in the woods in the area where the shot was fired from. It was addressed to the police from the person(s) claiming responsibility for these shootings. In all of these cases the victims were shot from a secreted position, with no apparent motive other than random violerice against victims who were in the course of conducting normal everyday activities. Investigation revealed that their injuries are all consistent with those suffered from a high powered weapon. All of the incidents that occurred within Montgomery County occurred within a small geographic area. The Maryland State Office of Chief Medical Examiners conducted autopsies on the remains of Martin, Buchanan, Walekar, Ramos, Lewis- Rivera and Johnson and ruled that their deaths were caused by single gunshot wounds and their manner of death was homicide in each case. The bullet fragments recovered from the murder victims Lewis-Rivera, Ramos, Walekar, Charlot, Myers, Bridges, Franklin and Johnson as well as the assault victims in the shopping center, school, and the Ponderosa, _ were taken to the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms for ballistic be examination. Firearm and Toolmark Examiner. —=d bie conducted the examination. Examiner Dandridge determined that ail bullet jacket fragments had rifling characteristics that were the same and the individual characteristics identified the bullet jacket fragments as having been fired from the same firearm. The caliber of these bullets is a .223. One of the firearms that could have fired these bullets is a Bushmaster XM15-E28. :