- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The
local prosecutor in Montgomery County, center of the Washington-area sniper
case, said on Thursday he believed the detention of two suspects, one an
army veteran, meant the shooter was no longer at large.
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- "There's a strong feeling these people are related
to the sniper shootings," Douglas Gansler, state's attorney in Maryland's
Montgomery County, where the sniper task force is based, told WTOP radio.
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- Asked if he believed the sniper was still at large, he
said, "No."
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- Police arrested the man and a teen-ager at a highway
rest stop in rural Maryland, in the first big break in a hunt for culprits
in the sniper slayings of 10 people and the wounding of three others.
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- However, police refrained from saying whether the pair
would be charged with carrying out the deadly attacks.
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