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D.C. sniper attacks: a series of coordinated shootings over three weeks in October 2002. Ten people were killed and three others wounded in the Baltimore-Washington area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia. Rodney Pocceschi, a Virginia Beach, Virginia police officer, was killed in the line of duty on June 23, 2003. [4]
The authors define a "soft target" as "an espionage term used for any country, institution or group of people very easy to penetrate and manipulate for subversive purposes" [1] and argue that the Canadian Sikh community was a soft target of a covert operation by the Indian government during the 1980s.
A "soft target" is a person, thing, or location that is easily accessible to the general public and relatively unprotected, making it vulnerable to military strikes, terrorism, car bombs, or crimes such as vehicle-ramming attacks or mass shootings. [1] By contrast, a "hard target" is heavily defended or not accessible to the general public.
Bing purchased the 9 mm handgun on the morning of the shooting, and practiced with shooting targets later found in his vehicle. [8] [9] [10] [6]Police responded to reports of a shooting in the store at 10:12 pm. [11] Bing shot a specific co-worker and then went to the breakroom to join an in-progress routine meeting about overnight responsibilities, but Bing interrupted and shot several others ...
Born in Petersburg, Virginia, on November 17, 1999, he attended eighth grade at John Rolfe Middle School. [31] He spent his first three years of high school at Varina High School (where he played for the football team and was honorable mention all-conference as a freshman and second-team as a sophomore and junior) in Varina, Henrico County ...
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They began sifting through recent AK-47 purchases in Maryland and Virginia—there had been at least 1,600 over the previous year alone. Kansi's name was on the sales slip from a gun store in Chantilly , where he had exchanged another gun for the AK-47 [ 3 ] just three days before the shootings.