The first, a 55-year-old man, was slain Wednesday night in Montgomery. I guess it's getting to be really, really personal now." The boy, hospitalized last night in critical but stable condition after about 2 1/2 hours of surgery, is the youngest of eight sniper victims. Someone is so mean-spirited that they shot a child. Speaking to reporters in Rockville, his eyes moist and his voice quivering with anger, Moose said: "Today it went down to the children. The others are Montgomery, the District and Spotsylvania County. Moose said yesterday when it became apparent that Prince George's had joined the list of Washington area jurisdictions where sniper attacks have occurred. "We have a level of fear that we're not used to," Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. An investigator said police found a spent shell casing in woods about 140 yards from the school, in a spot with a clear sightline to where the boy crumpled to the ground, bleeding. The youth, an eighth-grader at Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, was struck in the chest by a high-powered rifle bullet as he was being dropped off in front of the school by an aunt about 8 a.m., authorities said. A 13-year-old boy was critically wounded outside a Prince George's County school yesterday in a shooting that authorities linked to a spate of sniper attacks that have now killed six people and wounded two others in the Washington area since Wednesday.
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