It turns out that the shooter, John Allen Mohammed, once lived in Clinton maryland. His first ex-wife and child still live there. Clinton is a small town 30 minutes SE from DC. My wife used to work in Clinton and we live in Waldorf, which is 20 minutes SE from Clinton.

For the most part, in Southern MD, we felt a little safer because there was talk that this person was in his comfort zone more north and west in Montgomery County and in NorthernVirginia and on the I-95 heading South. Well, it turns out that he did live in Clinton at one time and was probably just as comfortable with the area. And so we were not as safe as we may have thought. Not that we felt spring chickeny down there, but there was sense of distance. Anyway, that's all water under the bridge . . . polluted water, I might add.