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Sniper team misled on van info? Page 2 of 7 ADYERTISING.QN MSNBC LResource GuIDe : Shop at B&N.com . Auctions at uBid . Yellow Pages - Personals Channe! Professional Tips . MSN Broadband ONAHICD [SPOnSORS AAmentrade: sharesunper NetBank Ember fdic Weekdays at Spm on Q WATERHOUSE America's NewsChanne! THE INACCURATE account ---- that a cream- colored van with a burned-out tail light was seen leaving the crime scene --- was exposed by checking it against several other witness accounts, Fairfax County police Lt. Amy Lubas told reporters. She said prosecutors were investigating to PLAy ViDEO > determine whether the witness should be charged. Police released the account soon after the slaying as October 17 --- - A police a public service but discounted it as soon as it was image profiler tells 'Today' cross-checked, Lubas said. host Katie Couric why it's so difficult for eyewitnesses to At their daily press briefing, senior investigators remember what perpetrators look like. insisted the latest developments were not a setback. Cuoio Tom Manger, police chief of Fairfax County, Va., where Monday's slaying took place, opened the news conference by saying, "It's been determined through further investigation that the information provided by one of the witnesses at the scene of the shooting in the Home Depot, describing a cream- colored van with a malfunctioning tail light, is not credible. "In addition, there have been several media reports related to the description of a specific weapon and the suspect. That information as well is not reliable." Manger said investigators continued to pursue leads confident' that the sniper will be caught. Manger denied that police had said witnesses recalled having seen the shooter. The police spokeswoman who had said that, Capt. Nancy Demme of Montgomery County, Md., immediately concurred that she had misspoken in her comments Wednesday when she explained why police were unable to come up 10/17/02 http://www.msnbc.com/news/816566.asp?0sl=-22