Who Murdered "Security Specialist" Kanika Powell?

[Virginia Dare]

Kanika Powell suspected something when the man knocked on her door claiming to be an FBI agent. He held a badge up to her peephole but walked away when Powell refused to open up without seeing a photo ID.

Five days later, there was another knock at the door of her Laurel area apartment. This time a different man, who said he was delivering a package. When Powell again refused to open the door, he also left -- no package, no note where it could be claimed.

Five hours later, Powell was outside her door after returning from errands. Someone was waiting in the hallway and opened fire, riddling her with bullets. She died a day later, this past Friday, and police have no idea why she was killed

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090304010.html

[peace13]

1. Very sad. n/t

[malaise]

2. Dons on tin foil hat

Michael Buckley, a spokesman for the Hopkins laboratory in Laurel, where scientists work on more than 400 homeland security and other research projects, said it was premature to speculate on whether Powell's death had any connection to her work. :shrug:

[Virginia Dare]

3. Exactly whatever she was working on was so hush-hush..

she couldn't even tell her family. Very strange.