Sniper Attack Victim Is Buried in Maryland

One of the six people killed in a suburban Washington shooting spree was buried Sunday as investigators completed a profile that focuses on where the killer might live.

Police also were awaiting an FBI psychological profile of the shooter, Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose said. Police have begun to use a geographic profile submitted by investigators that uses crime locations to determine where the killer feels comfortable traveling and may live.

“To us, the motivation of the offender is not relevant. We’re looking at the geography,” said Kim Rossmo, a police researcher who compiled the profile.

Moose would not offer specifics about what the geographic profile revealed. Investigators were making progress, he said, but “some of the more desirable smoking-gun leads just aren’t there.”

Family and friends gathered Sunday to bury Premkumar Walekar, a 54-year-old taxi driver killed Thursday at an Aspen Hill gas station.

Walekar was one of five people shot to death at random in Montgomery County in a 16-hour span Wednesday and Thursday. A sixth victim was killed Thursday in Washington.

Tests conducted by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms confirmed that the same weapon was used to kill Walekar and three other victims.