We're ready.

That's a question New Yorkers have been asking themselves a lot lately.

Are we ready for another blackout, for a bus hijacking or a bombing, or another murder

by the 44 caliber killer? I know that I'm not usually known for any public exhibitions of

temper, but I want you to know I'm damned angry.

The city is preoccupied with the killer, who in one note signed himself the son of Sam.

He is compelled to kill.

I think people are really shook up.

People wouldn't come out at night.

They're really scared.

The whole city was kind of like in lockdown.

No one stayed out past 10 o'clock.

People were terrified. And the girl was covered in lockdown. No one stayed out past 10 o'clock. People were terrified.

And girl was covered with blood.

Oh my god, oh my God. We've been shot. We've been shot. I should have been dead.

I guess on one hand I'm happy to be alive. A lot of people died from the same gun.

He struck again over the weekend shooting a young couple in a Brooklyn lover's lane and today the girl died.

The killer's sixth victim. He's wounded seven others.

It's just scary. It's frightening.

When you're walking, people just look over their shoulder.

That's all they do is talk about the killer.

Walks up to strangers, usually couples in parked cars and shoots them with a large, poor revolver. Police say they are nowhere near solving the case. If you're asking whether we have any indication of who he is or where he might be, the answer is no. To do this to a young girl and a young boy, he's not human. He was writing about a dog that talked to him, gave him orders to kill.

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