All there was was a loud boom." Police said the first shot may have been fired at 5:20 Wednesday evening, when a bullet pierced the window of a Georgia Avenue store. No cars speeding, nobody running, nothing. Nor did he see anyone running or driving away. Millhouse said he couldn't tell where the bullet came from. There were no visible confrontations, no words spoken. Despite the crowds, the culprit apparently managed to avoid standing out, slipping away each time without attracting notice. Like the scene of the four other fatal shootings in a 17-hour rampage, the Aspen Hill Mobil mart was bustling with bystanders and witnesses when the shooter pulled the trigger. The cabdriver was not the first person gunned down that morning along the busy commercial corridors of southern Montgomery County, nor would he be the last.
The tail end of rush-hour traffic zipped through the congested intersection of Connecticut Avenue and Aspen Hill Road before the police cruisers and ambulance arrived, sirens blaring. Blood quickly pooled around the middle row of gas pumps as the 54-year-old cabby, identified as Premkumar A. The mechanic yelled for someone to call 911. "Someone has been hurt." Millhouse, a mechanic at the gas station, scrambled over to the pumps, where the dying cabby stumbled backward a few steps before collapsing onto the pavement. "I gotta go," Millhouse told his friend on the phone. He glanced up and saw a cabdriver standing next to a gas pump a few feet away, clutching his side as blood streamed down his shirt and pants.
By Washington Post staff writers October 4, 2002Īlex Millhouse was chatting on a pay phone at the Mobil gas station in Aspen Hill when he thought he heard a car backfire.
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