May 11, 2006 12:33 pm US/Eastern
Sniper Trial Jury Hears 911 Tape From Va. Shooting
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) ―
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John Allen Muhammad (File)
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The jury in a Washington area sniper trial of John Allen Muhammad on Thursday heard a gut-wrenching recording of a 911 call that followed the fatal shooting of a woman in a Home Depot parking lot.
FBI analyst Linda Franklin, 47, was shot in the head as she and her husband loaded supplies in the Falls Church, Va., parking lot on Oct. 14, 2002.
"My wife's been shot!" Ted Franklin wailed, crying hysterically. When the 911 operator asked where, he cried, "Shot in the head!"
Muhammad, 45, is on trial for the six fatal shootings that occurred in Montgomery County, Md. But prosecutors are building a chronological case against Muhammad by detailing all 10 sniper killings and three woundings that began Oct. 2 and ended with Muhammad and accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo's arrest three weeks later.
Franklin was the ninth fatality during the sniper spree.
Muhammad, who is acting as his own attorney, could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted. He already is on death row in Virginia for one of the shootings, but Maryland prosecutors say the second trial is needed insurance in case his conviction is overturned on appeal.
Malvo, serving a life term in Virginia, is scheduled to go on trial in the fall for the same six murders, but may plead guilty and testify in Muhammad's case.
Witnesses have described seeing Muhammad's beat-up blue Chevrolet Caprice or the sniper himself near shooting scenes.
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