surrounds our nation's capital encompasses portions of maryland and virginia, the beltway is a sprawl of medium and small towns, the kinds of places where indiscriminate violence is rare. for area residents, october 2nd, 2002 began quietly enough. nationally the big news was a hurricane in the gulf of mexico. >> category four hurricane -- >> and the buildup to the invasion of iraq. >> we know the awful nature of war. >> but a very different war was about to erupt. [siren sound] >> i got a call from my deputy. lieutenant phil long. a 55-year-old man was killed outside the store. >> we had a gentleman who was shot in the parking lot at the shopper's food warehouse. i asked him what kind was it, did we have an argument between two people? did we have an answer to it.