Boy, 13, Shot by Sniper at School; Police Link Wounding in Prince George's to Seven Other Attacks Across Region

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 8, 2002| Author: Serge F. Kovaleski and Michael E. Ruane | Copyright information

A 13-year-old boy was critically wounded outside a Prince George's County school yesterday in a shooting that authorities linked to a spate of sniper attacks that have now killed six people and wounded two others in the Washington area since Wednesday.

The youth, an eighth-grader at Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, was struck in the chest by a high-powered rifle bullet as he was being dropped off in front of the school by an aunt about 8 a.m., authorities said. An investigator s...

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