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Around 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, a Ride On bus driver was shot and killed by a single bullet as he prepared to begin his morning bus route. The shooting took place in Aspen Hill, near the locations of the first sniper shootings in early October. A police officer works a road block that was set up to catch the shooter.
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms confer near the Ride On bus where Conrad Johnson, 35, was fatally shot. Ballistics tests have not yet confirmed that Tuesday's shooting was the latest in a series of sniper attacks that have terrorized the Washington region and claimed 10 lives.
Tuesday's shooting took place in darkness on Bel Pre Road in Aspen Hill, near the busy intersection of Georgia and Connecticut avenues. The Ride On bus driven by the victim is in the lower right-hand corner of this aerial photo taken from a police helicopter.
A Montgomery County police officer checks the inside of a van at a roadblock on Colesville Road and the Beltway around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. The shooter eluded police efforts.
Police officers pour plaster to make a cast of the site where a 35-year-old bus driver was fatally shot Tuesday morning.
Residents of the Northgate Apartments on Grand Pre Road watch police as they investigate the crime scene. Montgomery County residents, spared from the latest sniper shootings, once again heard the sounds of sirens and helicopters as violence claimed another life.
Police officers, friends and relatives of slain bus driver Conrad Johnson comfort Johnson's mother, Sonia Wills, at Suburban Hospital Tuesday afternoon. Johnson died at the hospital after suffering massive internal bleeding.
Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose, right, prepares to address the press Tuesday afternoon. The sniper left a threatening note near the scene of Saturday night's shooting outside Richmond, and police have been communicating with him through press conferences over the past two days.
A Montgomery County police officer escorts Aspen Hill resident Marie Boursiquot and her children back to their home on Bel Pre Road after a shooting there claimed the life of a Ride On bus driver from Oxon Hill. Road blocks were in place until 10 a.m. on major roads, and even later on side streets in the area.
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