Ballistics test says snipers' handgun used in Atlanta slaying

ATLANTA - Police said Thursday that ballistics tests indicate that a handgun used by the Washington-area sniper suspects was used to kill an Atlanta man outside a liquor store in September. <br> <br> Million Woldemarian, a 41-year-old Ethiopian immigrant, was fatally shot shortly after midnight on September 21 outside the southwest Atlanta liquor store where he worked. Police said he had walked out of the store to check on a suspicious car parked outside. <br> <br> Woldermarian was shot several times, but was not robbed. <br> <br> Later that day, a women was fatally shot and another wounded in a liquor store robbery in Montgomery, Alabama, about 150 miles away. Alabama police have charged sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo with murder for that shooting. <br> <br> Investigators believe the suspects used a handgun and a rifle in the Montgomery shooting. Police have said ballistics tests showed that the rifle was also used in the sniper attacks around Washington. <br> <br> A citizen found the .22 caliber handgun used in the Montgomery shooting on October 30th near where a police officer said he chased Muhammad. Authorities said the gun was the same one used to shoot Woldermarian. <br> <br> Authorities say it was stolen from a gun show in El Paso, Texas, in July. <br> <br> It is first shooting linked to suspects in Georgia. Previously they have been linked to shootings in Virginia, Maryland, Alabama, Louisiana and Washington state. <br> <br> Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said he would examine other cases that could be linked to the suspects. <br> <br> Muhammad and Malvo were moved Thursday from Maryland to Virginia, where prosecutors in two counties planned to try them.

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