On October 1st, 2004 the Brookside Gardens of Wheaton, Maryland opened a new addition to their award-winning gardens. Suitably named the Reflection Terrance, this small, peaceful park was created in memory of the ten victims of the Beltway Sniper Attacks. The names of the victims have been carved into a large stone. On the other side, there is a carefully written statement from the community.
Just two years prior, two gunmen terrorized people living in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. The harrowing three weeks of seemingly random shootings came to an end on October 24, 2002, with the arrest of the killers. These attacks left ten injured and a total of seventeen dead. Seven were murdered during preliminary shootings, beginning in February 2002 and ending in September of that year. The Beltway shootings all occurred in October. The names of the victims who died in the 10 in the Beltway sniper attacks have been carved into a large stone.
The Reflection Terrence has become a place where people of the community can come together to reflect on the tragedy and the precious lives that were lost in it.
