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Seventh death linked to snipe
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MANASSAS, Va. (AP) —
The death toll from the
Washington-area sniper rose to
seven Thursday as authorities
said ballistics evidence linked the
killer to the slaying of a man
gunned down at a Virginia gas
station.
Dean Meyers, 53, of
Gaithersburg, Md., was felled by
a single shot Wednesday night,
moments after filling his car’s
tank, the latest victim to die since
the attacks began Oct. 2. Two
people have also been wounded.
Prince William County Police
Chief Charlie Deane said the
results of an autopsy on Meyers
and ballistic evidence “has linked
these cases.”
Deane also pleaded for the
killer to give up: “There’s enough
damage been done.”
Police had said they were
searching for a white minivan
seen leaving the gas station, but
Deane downplayed the lead and
said the occupants had a “reason
able” explanation of their actions.
He refused to say whether there
were surveillance cameras at the
gas station but said some cameras
were in the area.
Manassas is about 35 miles
southwest of the Maryland sub
urbs where most of the attacks
happened. The attack is the sec
ond in Virginia: A woman was
wounded by the sniper Friday in
Fredericksburg, 30 miles south of
here.
In a drizzling rain, police in
yellow slickers walked shoulder
to shoulder near the crime scene,
looking for evidence. Deane did
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not say whether they had found
anything. But he said there had
been no communication from the
killer.
A tarot death card with the
taunting words “Dear policeman,
I am God” was found near a shell
casing outside a school in Bowie.
Md., where a 13-year-old boy
was critically wounded by the
sniper Monday.
Investigators say the sniper, or
snipers, fired from a distance with
a high-powered hunting or mili
tary-style rifle. Like Meyers, all
the victims were felled by a sin
gle bullet.
Neighbors said Meyers lived
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a town house complex
Gaithersburg. They said
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Backpacks are history at Calif, schoo
Something’s missing at the new Sun Valley
Charter High School in Ramona, Calif. There are
no textbooks, only computers.
That means students there don’t have to lug
heavy backpacks — a familiar ritual for many
young Americans who carry books from class to
class and home at day’s end.
Growing back pain complaints prompted a new
California law limiting textbook weight. But some
say assignments drawn from the Internet, “e-
books” or CD-ROMs will be the real solution.
Officials at Sun Valley High, a public school
near San Diego, used money normally spent on
textbooks for computers.
The new school’s first students — about 60
incoming freshmen — get assignments from
such services as Questia.com, an online library,
and Interactive Mathematics, curriculum on
computer CD.
It sounds nice, but unrealistic to Monika
Rohall, a 15-year-old Chicagoan. “What about
kids who don’t have fast-running computers at
home?” she asks.
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A freshman at Chicago’s towering LaneTsi
High School, she’s stuck navigating four flight
stairs with all her books because she has
to get to her locker between classes. Bi
from her overloaded pack has caused her to (in
the volleyball team.
Such health problems are increasingly coil;
mon. says Grace Walker, a registered physica
therapist in Orange, Calif.
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they're seeing more young people with backp
related pain. In severe cases, it can lead tool:'
ture of the spine.
Walker’s 12-year-old son uses a rolling baa
pack, dragged on wheels behind him. His ®
also buys extra textbooks to keep at home.
“Fortunately, I can afford to do that, Wt
says. “Most people can’t.”
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California school. Sometimes, students therep
out assignments to take home. And it home^
requires a computer, they can use the
machines after school.
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