Police hunt white van as ninth sniper victim killed

POLICE are searching for a white van seen leaving the Prince William County gas station where a man who may have been the ninth victim of a sniper terrorising the Washington area was fatally shot Wednesday night.

The man died on the scene after he was shot about 8.20 pm on Wednesday night at the Battlefield Sunoco station, about seven miles north of Manassas, Virginia. He was identified as Dean Harold Meyers, 53, of Gaithersburg, and was killed with a single shot to the head, police officials said.

Witnesses reported a white Dodge caravan leaving the gas station at Sudley Road (Route 234) and Balls Ford Road. Police did not know how many people were in the van.