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Thread #54409   Message #842501
Posted By: GUEST
06-Dec-02 - 02:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Road Rage Shooter Linked to NRA
Subject: RE: BS: Road Rage Shooter Linked to NRA
This is from the local NBC affiliate, NBC4, website:

http://www.nbc4.com/news/1822195/detail.html

Suspected Parkway Shooter Arrested
Suspect Is Son Of Gun Rights Activist

POSTED: 3:35 p.m. EST December 5, 2002
UPDATED: 3:40 p.m. EST December 5, 2002

WASHINGTON -- News4 has learned the son of a gun activist was arrested Wednesday night and charged with an apparent road rage shooting on the George Washington Parkway.

Police believe David Michael Keene, 21, shot a gun from a BMW on Sunday afternoon. The bullet shattered the window of a Mercedes Benz and became lodged in the driver's seat, just inches from the driver's head.

Police believe Keene and the driver of the Mercedes were involved in a road rage incident along the George Washington Parkway just before the shooting happened. The driver of the Mercedes managed to get the license plate number of the BMW and report it to police.

Keene appeared in an Alexandria, Va., court Thursday afternoon. He was charged with use of a firearm during a crime of violence. A conviction carries a mandatory sentence of at least 10 years behind bars.

News4 has learned Keene is the son of David A. Keene, who is on the board of directors for the National Rifle Association. Keene is also a conservative political consultant and lobbyist who has worked in the White House and in Congress.

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The website also has links to these stories about the "incident".

http://www.nbc4.com/news/1814635/detail.html

Police: Bullet Misses Driver's Head By Inches
Road Rage Incident Has Police Asking For Help

POSTED: 1:29 p.m. EST December 2, 2002
UPDATED: 8:28 p.m. EST December 2, 2002

WASHINGTON -- Police said an angry motorist fired a gun at another car on the George Washington Parkway, and the bullet hit the driver's seat, just missing the driver's head by inches. The driver was not hurt.

Scott Fear of the U.S. Park Police said the altercation involved a blue Mercedes Benz and a gray BMW. The two cars were driving nourthbound near the Route 123 exit when the incident happened around 2 p.m. Sunday.

Fear said, "The two went back and forth a little bit. One driver got upset, and the way we understand it is, he shot through the rear windshield of this [the blue Mercedes] vehicle, and the bullet struck the driver's seat."

Now police want to talk to the driver of the BMW and to anyone who was traveling in the area between 1:45 and 2:15 p.m. Sunday. The BMW had four doors and a Maryland registration and police believe it may have been a 3-series model. Fear said a white man was driving and a white woman was in the passenger seat.

Police ask anyone with information about the incident to call (202) 610-8757.

The parkway was closed for northbound for about an hour on Sunday while police investigated the incident.

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http://www.nbc4.com/news/1817696/detail.html

Police Find Car Suspected In Parkway Shooting
Police Expect Arrest Soon

POSTED: 4:51 p.m. EST December 3, 2002
UPDATED: 6:14 a.m. EST December 4, 2002

WASHINGTON -- Police have found the BMW that they believe was involved in a road rage shooting Sunday afternoon on the George Washington Parkway.

A man was driving a Mercedes on the parkway between Key Bridge and Chain Bridge and slammed on his brakes when a BMW passed him.

Police said the Mercedes then passed the BMW, and the driver of the BMW fired a shot into the rear window of the Mercedes.

The bullet hit the driver's seat.

No one was injured.

Police found the BMW on Tuesday. Officers expect to find the driver soon.