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The sniper set.  Was it a male or female?  It did not matter at the time of the shooting.

It was the day after September 11th.  The day was almost complete.  Except for about an hour and just a few minutes.

Friday September 12th 2014 was when it happened.

Upon Trooper Bryon Dickson exiting the doorway, as news reports tell the story, a round went off from someplace that seems pretty clear gave easy predation to aim and penetrate the victim, and then to repeat the process a full minute and a half later.

The milieu, an accurate word used for surrounding an environment, of the area where the shooting took place, has many of the ingredients for concealment of a shooter.

Surreal elements in the milieu remindful of sniper movies include heavy forest areas and lonely roads.

Perhaps one of the most frightening aspects of the entire situation is the feeling of helplessness for those that have to perform business and mundane routines in the area of concern, as a shooter or sniper that can aim accurately from far off, might not even be able to be seen by others that come within a radius that the shooter can place in aim.

School buses are known to frequent the area.

On Friday, with darkness of the night, combined with the density of trees to use to the advantage for an attack and escape, the police barracks at Blooming Grove Township in Pennsylvania came under attack.

A massive manhunt got underway.  Still no reports of a suspect in custody.

Where did the sniper go?  This brings up a lot of questions.  The area of the initial attack is not too far from the border with New York to the north, and New Jersey to the east.

In some dimensions, the more time that passes by, the larger the pool of possibilities, the further the person could have traveled.

Other sniper and shooting incidents that have taken place within the Mid-Atlantic region:

• DC sniper shootings, October 2002
• Fauquier County courthouse shooting with a stabbing toward the end of December 2009, Warrenton, Virginia