Editing Charles Moose (section)

==Early life and education==
Moose was born in New York City on August 4, 1953.<ref name="moosebio">{{cite web |title=Charles Moose: Information from Answers.com |url=http://www.answers.com/topic/charles-moose |website=Answers.com |access-date=June 9, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070419201250/http://www.answers.com/topic/charles-moose |archive-date=April 19, 2007}}</ref> His family moved to [[Lexington, North Carolina]], shortly after he was born, and Moose lived and attended school there until leaving for college.<ref>{{cite book|last=Moose|first=Charles|author2=Charles Fleming|author-link2=Charles Fleming (author)|title=[[Three Weeks in October: The Manhunt for the Serial Sniper]]|date=September 15, 2003|publisher=Penguin Group (USA)|isbn=0-451-21279-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/threeweeksinocto00char/page/370 370]}}</ref> When he was sixteen years old, his mother died, and his father died when Moose was in his early twenties. Moose completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in U.S. History in 1975 at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]].<ref name="moosebio" /><ref name="pr">{{cite press release |url=http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/mc/news/press/99-275.html |title=Charles Moose sworn in as 15th Montgomery County police chief |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927020923/http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/mc/news/press/99-275.html |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |date=August 2, 1999 |publisher=Montgomery County (MD) Government |access-date=June 9, 2007}}</ref> That year he joined the [[Portland Police Bureau]] in [[Portland, Oregon]], as a [[Police officer|patrolman]].<ref name="pr" /> He then earned a [[Master of Public Administration]] degree from [[Portland State University]] in 1984, and a PhD in [[urban studies]] and [[criminology]] in 1993.<ref name="wash-post-obit">{{cite news |last1=Schudel |first1=Matt |last2=Davies |first2=Emily |last3=Hermann |first3=Peter |title=Charles Moose, Montgomery County police chief during 2002 D.C. sniper attacks, dies at 68 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2021/11/26/charles-moose-dead/ |access-date=November 27, 2021 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=November 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127081513/https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2021/11/26/charles-moose-dead/ |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>