Maryland State Police Major Greg Shipley, right, addresses the media at a pre-dawn news conference at the Frederick County (Md.) Law Enforcement Center. Shipley announced that the two men wanted for questioning in the sniper attacks were arrested earlier that morning at a rest stop off a Maryland interstate.
Oct. 24, 2002
Montgomery Police Chief John Wilson talks with reporters about a shooting that occurred outside this ABC Beverages store in Montgomery, Ala., on Sept. 21. At right is Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright. A person calling the FBI tip line claimed responsibility for both the Alabama crime and the sniper shootings.
Oct. 24, 2002
A Maryland State Trooper talks to a motorist at the entrance ramp to the rest stop near Myserville, Md., where two men wanted for questioning in the sniper case were arrested earlier that morning. They were found sleeping in their car at the rest stop.
Oct. 23, 2002
Investigators comb the yard of a Tacoma, Wash., home, looking for evidence of a possible connection to the Washington, D.C., sniper shootings. The search for the serial sniper jumped across the country when a U.S. official in Washington said authorities were looking for two "people of interest," one of them formerly connected to Fort Lewis, an Army base south of Tacoma.
Oct. 23, 2002
Chris Waters, left, an Army private at Fort Lewis, speaks to reporters. Waters, who lives across the street from the home that FBI agents are investigating, said he heard repeated gunshots in the neighborhood nearly every day in January. He notified police, who cruised the neighborhood but found nothing suspicious.
Oct. 23, 2002
An investigator removes evidence from the home in Tacoma, Wash.
Oct. 23, 2002
FBI agents, armed with metal detectors and chain saws, removed most of this tree stump from the backyard of the Tacoma rental home.
Oct. 23, 2002
FBI spokeswoman Melissa Mallon speaks to reporters near the home that was searched by authorities for evidence relating to the sniper shootings in the Washington, D.C. area.
Oct. 23, 2002
Students walk from cars after being dropped off at the main entrance to James River High School in Chesterfield County, a suburb of Richmond, Va. Anxious parents took their children back to schools under tight security after a chilling warning left by a shooting suspect was read by Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose.
Oct. 22, 2002
Residents of an apartment complex near the bus stop gaze out their window towards the crime scene as ATF agents go door-to-door seeking information about the crime.
Oct. 22, 2002
A county police officer inspects a vehicle at a roadblock on Connecticut Avenue, a block from the scene of the bus shooting.
Oct. 22, 2002
Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose addresses the media about the latest information in the sniper case. From left: Michael Bouchard, special agent in charge from the ATF, Gary Bald, special agent in charge from the FBI, Moose and Doug Duncan, Montgomery County executive.
Oct. 22, 2002
Jason Tubman peers from behind a telephone pole as he waits for the bus at the corner of Georgia and Connecticut Avenue in Aspen Hill, Md. The location is just down the street from where a bus driver was shot and killed by the sniper.
Oct. 22, 2002
A Montgomery County commuter bus stands idle where its driver was fatally shot on a wooded residential street in Aspen Hill, Md. Police with K-9 dogs walk down the street during a search for possible evidence of the sniper. an hugs some of her friend's children outside Rock
Oct. 21, 2002
Investigators measure and mark the position of a van that was parked near a pay phone at a gas station in Richmond, Va. There were hopes of a break in the case when two men were taken into custody here, but no connection was found.
Oct. 20, 2002
Looking over his shoulder as he walks up and down Rockville Pike, music store employee Tim Goldsmith is literally a slow-moving target, vulnerable to the sniper.
Oct. 20, 2002
Law enforcement officers discuss the circumstances of a shooting in Ashland, Va., while waiting for daylight in front of an adjacent restaurant to the shooting.
Oct. 19, 2002
A 37-year-old man survived a sniper attack in front of this Ponderosa restaurant in Ashland, Va. It was the sniper's first attack to take place during a weekend.
Oct. 18, 2002
During a day of fall activities Ethan Reedy, 4, from Dunkirk, Md., chooses a pumpkin at Cherry Hill Farm in Clinton, Md. Attendance at the farm has been down this year as schools have cancelled their field trips due to the sniper shootings.
Oct. 16, 2002
Highway operations technician Charlie Moss monitors traffic flow in the Maryland State Wide Operations Center in Hanover.