Colossians 1:17 says, "And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."
Although I live in the area most affected by the sniper shootings of October 2002, I was never afraid. It's amazing to have the privileges of living a life free from fear and having a relationship with the Creator, the Master of the Universe, the One who controls all things. Here is an excerpt from a news article I read recently. I live less than a mile from the Outback steakhouse. It really made me ponder what could have been and be grateful that God knows everything and is far more powerful than men.
During the sniper attacks, Muhammad claimed to be God. It seems ironic to me that the true God enabled the capture of these two because Malvo fell asleep.
We are so blessed to know God.
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Unveiling a master plan that dwarfed the October 2002 random sniper shootings, Lee Boyd Malvo told jurors yesterday that had he and John Allen Muhammad not been caught, the two planned to make Baltimore the center of a murderous campaign in which they would have used explosives against children and police. Malvo, 21, said the scheme was "Phase 2" of a plan to kill one police officer with a weapon other than the .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle the pair was using in the Washington-area sniper rampage, then set off explosives among mourners.
"Then dozens of officers would get to the funeral and you would have improvised explosives," Malvo said. More explosives would target ambulances that rushed to the scene of the carnage, Malvo told a full and hushed courtroom. That and the plan to kill three busloads of school children were to begin Oct. 24, 2002, but were thwarted by the arrest of Muhammad and Malvo before dawn that morning at an Interstate 70 rest stop near Frederick. They had planned to leave the rest stop after Muhammad's nap to shoot another sniper victim outside an Outback steakhouse in Frederick before going to Baltimore. But Malvo fell asleep on his job of keeping watch.
Malvo's testimony revealed that the 13 sniper shootings, 10 of them fatal, that terrorized the Washington region for three weeks in October 2002, were supposed to have been six shootings a day for 30 days. Malvo testified that he backed down from Muhammad's plan to kill a pregnant woman in a shooting from a Baltimore cemetery after cutting a hole in a fence. Aiming toward a fast food restaurant, he saw four pregnant women, Malvo said, but "just couldn't take the shot."
Although I live in the area most affected by the sniper shootings of October 2002, I was never afraid. It's amazing to have the privileges of living a life free from fear and having a relationship with the Creator, the Master of the Universe, the One who controls all things. Here is an excerpt from a news article I read recently. I live less than a mile from the Outback steakhouse. It really made me ponder what could have been and be grateful that God knows everything and is far more powerful than men.
During the sniper attacks, Muhammad claimed to be God. It seems ironic to me that the true God enabled the capture of these two because Malvo fell asleep.
We are so blessed to know God.
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Unveiling a master plan that dwarfed the October 2002 random sniper shootings, Lee Boyd Malvo told jurors yesterday that had he and John Allen Muhammad not been caught, the two planned to make Baltimore the center of a murderous campaign in which they would have used explosives against children and police. Malvo, 21, said the scheme was "Phase 2" of a plan to kill one police officer with a weapon other than the .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle the pair was using in the Washington-area sniper rampage, then set off explosives among mourners.
"Then dozens of officers would get to the funeral and you would have improvised explosives," Malvo said. More explosives would target ambulances that rushed to the scene of the carnage, Malvo told a full and hushed courtroom. That and the plan to kill three busloads of school children were to begin Oct. 24, 2002, but were thwarted by the arrest of Muhammad and Malvo before dawn that morning at an Interstate 70 rest stop near Frederick. They had planned to leave the rest stop after Muhammad's nap to shoot another sniper victim outside an Outback steakhouse in Frederick before going to Baltimore. But Malvo fell asleep on his job of keeping watch.
Malvo's testimony revealed that the 13 sniper shootings, 10 of them fatal, that terrorized the Washington region for three weeks in October 2002, were supposed to have been six shootings a day for 30 days. Malvo testified that he backed down from Muhammad's plan to kill a pregnant woman in a shooting from a Baltimore cemetery after cutting a hole in a fence. Aiming toward a fast food restaurant, he saw four pregnant women, Malvo said, but "just couldn't take the shot." 
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