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Another sniper wva Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/GoodMorningAmerica/shootings_serialkiller030818.html http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/GoodMorningAmerica/shootings_serialkiller030818.html Another Serial Sniper? West Va. Authorities, Residents on Edge After String of Shooting Deaths Aug. 18— Authorities in Charleston, W.Va., believe a serial sniper may be responsible for the deaths of three people shot outside convenience stores in just over a week — and they are worried the killer may strike again. Kanawha County Sheriff's Department officials are concerned about apparent similarities between slayings of three people last week and the sniper shootings that terrorized residents of Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland last year. Two suspects, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, have been arrested in the D.C.-area shootings. The three people gunned down in West Virginia — identified as Okey Meadows Jr., Jeannie Patton and Gary Carrier Jr. — did not know each other, but police say all were killed outside convenience stores with a single bullet fired from a distance. "We are now investigating what could be possible serial-type murders," Kanawha County Sheriff Dave Tucker told reporters Friday. "We don't have anyone standing there with a smoking gun. We have no apparent domestic violence situations," Chief Deputy Phil Morris said. "And we don't have any reason to believe these [killings] were drug-related. As sad as that is, we are concerned about [a single killer]." Carrier, 34, was shot in the head Aug. 10 while he was using a pay phone outside a Go-Mart in Charleston. Patton and Meadows were killed Thursday night, approximately an hour apart: Patton was shot while pumping gas at a Speedway in Campbells Creek, while Meadows was slain 10 miles away outside a Go-Mart in Cedar Grove. Perhaps a Skilled Marksman Police have not identified the kind of weapon or weapons they believe were used in the shootings. But they said witnesses to at least one shooting have told them that the shot came from a black pickup truck that sped away after the attack. "There seems to be no question in the witnesses that that shot came from that vehicle, and there doesn't seem to be any doubt that it was from inside the vehicle," Morris said. "The person certainly wasn't standing outside the vehicle on the passenger side." The shot that killed Meadows, authorities said, was fired from 60 or 70 yards away, while Patton was shot from approximately 30 to 40 yards away, making authorities believe the suspect in a skilled marksman. "I'm a pretty good shot myself, but with a handgun that would be even a greater shot for me," Tucker said. "So that's the reason why I say it'd [the weapon] be a long gun, something like that." Authorities have warned residents not to travel alone to convenience stores and to be aware of their surroundings. They said they are reviewing video from surveillance cameras at the Go-Mart stores and are not ruling out the possibility that the slayings are connected to a shooting at an area supermarket in March. ABCNEWS Affiliate WCHS-TV and ABCNEWS Radio contributed to this report.

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