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Article: FBI SNIPERS SECURE ABOUT FIRING FATAL SHOT AT RUBY RIDGE.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 15, 1995
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Byline: MICHAEL HEDGES Scripps Howard
WASHINGTON The mindset of FBI snipers and their understanding of their instructions on a dark, rainy afternoon in 1992 when one of them fired a shot that killed the wife of Randall Weaver were dissected at a congressional hearing Thursday.
The snipers described how, from various vantage points surrounding the cabin on Ruby Ridge, Idaho, they heard two shots, and after the second one, ``a female's voice screaming hysterically'' for several seconds before an eerie silence descended.
Lon Horiuchi, who fired the shots, the second one hitting Vicki Weaver in the face and killing her instantly, earlier ...