Lee Boyd Malvo
Susan Walsh/Associated Press
Updated: Nov. 11, 2009
Lee Boyd Malvo, also known as John Lee Malvo, was sentenced to life in prison for six
murders in Montgomery County, Md., in 2002. The shootings, committed in concert
with John A. Muhammad, were among a three-week series of sniper attacks that
terrorized the Washington area.
Mr. Muhammad was convicted of shooting Dean H. Meyers, an engineer, at a gas station
in Manassas, Va. Mr. Meyers was one of 10 people killed in Maryland, Virginia and
Washington in October 2002; 3 were wounded.
Testifying against Mr. Muhammad, his onetime mentor, in 2006, Mr. Malvo gave a
chilling account of the killing spree around Washington and elsewhere across the
country. He was 17 at the time of the shootings. The two are suspected of fatal shootings
in Alabama, Arizona and Louisiana.
In 2006, Mr. Malvo told Tucson police that he and Mr. Muhammad were also
responsible for the killing of a 60-year-old man on a Tucson golf course in 2002, the
police said. Mr. Malvo spoke to the police in Maryland after he received a grant of
immunity. He said the shooting took place while he and Mr. Muhammad were in the
area visiting Mr. Muhammad's sister.
A crucial lead enabled investigators to trace a latent unidentified fingerprint found on a
gun magazine at a liquor store in Montgomery, Ala., to the Jamaican-born teenager. Mr.
Malvo had gotten into some scrapes with the law and with immigration officials while
living in Bellingham, Wash., and the F.B.I. and the Immigration and Naturalization
Service had his fingerprints on file.
Investigators also learned that the boy had been known to hang out with a former soldier
named John Allen Muhammad, also known as John Williams. Mr. Muhammad was
under a restraining order after reportedly threatening a former wife. There was also
forensic evidence, taken from a letter left at the scene of one of the sniper shootings, that
pointed to Mr. Muhammad.
Mr. Muhammad was executed by lethal injection in Virginia on Nov. 10, 2009
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