Arrests bring relief to KU freshman

Allison Love was overcome by relief when she heard about Thursday’s arrests in the sniper investigation.

“I was so happy I jumped up and down,” said the Kansas University freshman from Bethesda, Md.

She feared the sniper’s rampage throughout Montgomery County one day might reach her family.

“I would call them every day, so that I could just talk to them and hear their voices and make sure they were OK,” Love said Thursday in her room at Oliver Hall.

Tuesday’s shooting of a bus driver in Silver Spring, Md., took place just 15 minutes away from Love’s home in suburban Bethesda.

“You just don’t expect something like that to happen in a parking lot, or at a bus stop or a gas station.”

Love said she was most afraid for her 15-year-old brother.

“My brother’s high school was on code blue. No one could enter the school, no one could leave; the kids couldn’t even go to lunch.”

She said the sniper shootings were the most devastating tragedies to hit the area since the Sept. 11 attack. Her home is just 20 minutes from the Pentagon.

“Everything was calming down again, and then you look on the news and someone’s been shot,” she said.

Love said she hoped Thursday’s arrests would put an end to the killings.

“I feel safe knowing that at least they have a suspect,” she said.