Shooter

A man who says he saw the gunman who killed two college students outside the Volcano's nightclub a year ago testified yesterday that the shooter was not Kevin L. Richardson, the man on trial in the killings.The witness, Derek R. McIntosh, struggled to give the date of the incident, which could hurt his testimony. How much weight jurors give to McIntosh's testimony could be a key to the outcome of the case, which goes to the jury tomorrow.Richardson is accused of killing Donte Young, a 22-year-old student at Coppin State College, and Lori McDaniel, 19, a second-year civil engineering student at Morgan State University, on Oct. 24, 1996.

Mark Wahlberg proved himself a dynamo as a motormouth in The Departed, so it's disappointing to see him play the strong silent type in Shooter. Who ever thought that type was so American, anyway? From Davy Crockett to Crockett and Tubbs it's been hard to get American heroes to shut up. What was funny and charming about Gary Cooper in his early Western roles was that you could see his mind searching for more words than he knew how to pronounce and more thoughts than he could articulate. But Bob Lee Swagger is a man of no adjectives and few verbs or nouns.

The parents of a 13-year-old Ellicott City boy who was accidentally shot and killed by a friend in April last year have filed a $20 million civil lawsuit against the family of the teen-age shooter. The wrongful-death suit filed in Howard County Circuit Court alleges that the family of the teen-ager failed to supervise him properly, and that their negligence caused the death of Tanun Wichainaraphong, nicknamed "Byrd." The shooter's uncle, who allegedly gave the .22-caliber rifle to the teen-ager as a gift, is also named in the suit.

Take-Two Interactive announced that “BioShock Infinite” will be pushed back from an Oct. 16 release to Feb. 26, 2013. The reasoning for the delay was stated in a press release by Ken Levine, Creative Director of Irrational Games, which is developing “Infinite” for Take-Two. “When we announced the release date of BioShock Infinite in March, we felt pretty good about the timing. Since then, we've uncovered opportunities to make Infinite into something even more extraordinary.

Police made a rare direct appeal last night to the sniper who has terrorized the Washington region for weeks, after finding an apparent message and phone number from the shooter at the Ashland, Va., steakhouse where a 37-year-old man was critically wounded Saturday. Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose disclosed what could be the second known communication between the sniper and authorities, while using a hastily scheduled news conference to respond to the message directly. "To the person who left us a message at the Ponderosa last night: You gave us a telephone number," Moose said.

"TC CLEMSON, S.C. -- From the time he came to Maryland three years ago, Sarunas Jasikevicius has been stereotyped as a standstill jump shooter. Though his game has expanded along with his playing time, it is his sweet, fluid stroke that separates Jasikevicius from nearly every one of his teammates.Jasikevicius doesn't agree with being classified this way, but the 6-foot-4 guard from Lithuania certainly understands it. Nor does Jasikevicius agree with the assessment that he is in a shooting slump, but he understands that, too. "Every good shooter is going to have periods when they struggle," Jasikevicius said Thursday.

"It can't happen here. " From the safety of suburban Maryland, it is only natural to think that random shootings erupting in movie theaters in Colorado will not visit our neighborhoods. Safe, quiet, stable communities are not the places we imagine when we think of kids and guns, the excitement of the first day at school and the terror of "code red," the evacuation of our children and debates over whether to charge a 15-year-old shooter as a kid or an adult. But it did happen at Perry Hall High School on Monday, and so we must follow the self-examination that other communities, from Littleton, Colo.

If you felt like little happened on this episode of "Weeds," you're not alone. But there was some action in episode three. Nancy is back at the Botwin/Pryce/Grey etc. compound complete with her latest accessory, the pimp cane. Following the bathroom quickie, Jill and Andy are happier than ever. Jill is organizing the cabinets and buying Nancy slip-proof socks -- uncharacteristically productive and thoughtful acts. Meanwhile high in the CFO chair, Doug, typically not the brains of the bunch, is forced to take the fall for the company because of their financial indiscretions.

SAN ANTONIO -- Tim Legler was always confident he would do well in the Long Distance Shootout but, just before going out on the court at the Alamodome, the Washington Bullets guard was stricken with a case of nerves."

This week's shooting incident at Virginia Tech has spawned intense media coverage, much of which has served to perpetuate myths about school shootings. The first myth is that this latest shooting is a point in an escalation of such incidents. Although rampage school shootings increased during the 1990s, after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, school shootings virtually came to a halt. One explanation is that school officials have gotten better at foiling shooting plots before they materialize.