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Show Page A14 THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HarkTheHerald.com), Provo, Utah, Friday, October 18, 2002 nDwes&iigA minpeir the best details yet about the killer. But that gave way to By STEPHEN MANNING Associated Press Writer anger Thursday. Moose said there was no credence to the witness' d description of the van with a burned-ou- t rear taillight. And while Moose did not give the witness' exact description of the chastised he shooter, reporters for running reports that variously described the gunman as - A ROCKVILLE, Md. witness who says he saw a sniper fire with an assault d rifle and flee in a van gave a phony story, investigators said Thursday in a setback that casts doubt on much of what the public thought it knew about the roving killer. Prosecutors are investigating the witness, whose name wasn't released, to determine whether he should be charged with filing a false statement. Fairfax County police Lt. Amy Lubas said the inaccurate account was exposed by checking it against that of other witnesses to Monday night's killing of an FBI cyberterrorism analyst in a crowded Virginia parking lot outside a Home Depot. It was the only shooting so far that people actually saw. Asked if the witness may have intentionally misled investigators, Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose, who is heading the investigation, said simply, cream-colore- cream-colore- dark-skinne- olive-skinne- d, East- Middle d, ern or Hispanic. "When we have people from the media interviewing witnesses and publishing reports, we get confusion," Moose said. "We get this noise ... out there that gives people tunnel vision and makes them focus in on things that are not appropriWe would like to be ate. able toclo our job." Similar witness accounts of a sniper in a van were published this week in both The Washington Post and The New York Times, based on an interview with an Arlington, Va., man who said he met a man at the Falls Church, Va., Home cream-colore- d Depot. Glen Guymon said he and the witness started talking when police ordered them inside after the shooting. Guy- - "Yes." Investigators had showed a certain optimism after the latest attack seemed to yield mon said the witness told him he saw a man in the parking lot standing behind a d Chevy Astro van. "There was a woman walking out to her car, he said she was with a guy Guymon told the Times of the man's account. The guy behind the van lifted up a rifle and shot her, then got in the car and drove off He was probably about 50 feet away from where he shot her." Reached at home Thursday, Guymon told The Associated Press: Tm shocked he was lying because he had a very detailed story. The guy sounded credible. He didn't sound like he was making it cream-colore- up." Moose said the witness' description to police of the shooter's AK-7assault rifle is also bogus. But investigators cautioned that they still 7 believe the sniper is using one of a family of more than 4 30 similar assault-typ- e weapons capable of firing a bullet. The message we're trying to say is please keep an open mind," Moose said. "People saw a description of a weapon over the last day and a half and we're convinced .223-calib- er t they eliminated people they know because they Bay, Their gun is not the weapon I saw in the paper." 1 said the disclosure of the fake story, coming a day after investigators said they were unable to draw a Moose if composite sketch, was hardly a setback. He said investiga- tors were still chasing leads tmd he stood by previous composite drawings of vehicles witnesses reported sec ing leaving the attacks: a white box truck and a Chevrolet Astro van Qr Ford Econoline van. 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