The Army vet and the teen who met in Antigua — what made them a sniper team

He was forty-one, an Army veteran with firearms training from the Gulf War.

She was seventeen, a teenager from Jamaica.

They met in Antigua.

That is where the record begins: a meeting between a veteran and a teenager, on an island neither called home.

The exact nature of their relationship before the attacks is not detailed in the source.

Only that they met there.

What brought them together is a question the record leaves open.

What they did together is a matter of arrest records and ballistics.

On October 24, 2002, they were found sleeping in a Chevrolet Caprice at a rest stop off Interstate 70 near Myersville, Maryland.

A truck driver who had heard an FBI alert about the vehicle spotted the car.

Inside the car was a Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle, later identified as the murder weapon.

The source states that as a fact of the arrest.

The veteran had training.

The teenager had none.

The rifle linked them to a series of shootings that killed ten people and wounded three others across Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

The first killing occurred on October 2 outside a grocery store in Wheaton, Maryland.

The final shooting took place on October 22 on a bus in Aspen Hill, Maryland.

The record does not explain how a forty-one-year-old veteran and a seventeen-year-old from Jamaica formed a bond that led to a killing spree.

It states only that they met in Antigua.

It states that they were arrested together.

It does not state what made them a team.

That would require evidence.

THE SHOOTINGS

Between October 2 and October 24, 2002, a series of shootings killed 10 people and wounded 3 others across Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., according to the source.

The first killing occurred on October 2 outside a grocery store in Wheaton, Maryland.

The final shooting took place on October 22 on a bus in Aspen Hill, Maryland, killing the driver.

Victims were shot while pumping gas, mowing a lawn, sitting on a bench, or walking into a store.

The source describes the attacks as appearing random.

One man was killed at a gas station in Manassas, Virginia, on October 9.

That was the killing for which both men were tried in Virginia, per the source.

Three others were wounded.

One of the wounded was a 13-year-old boy outside a middle school in Bowie, Maryland.

The source names this as a wounding, not a killing.

A woman was wounded outside a craft store in Falls Church.

A man was wounded in a parking lot in Silver Spring.

The shootings spanned 22 days.

They spanned three jurisdictions.

They stopped on October 24, when the two were arrested while sleeping in a Chevrolet Caprice at a rest stop off Interstate 70.

The source does not specify which shootings were committed by which individual.

It only says the two were arrested together and linked to the rifle.

Was one the shooter and the other the driver?

Was the rifle passed between them?

Did they take turns?

That would require evidence.

The record establishes the range of the attacks.

It establishes the randomness.

It does not establish the division of roles.