“Beltway Sniper” John Allen Muhammad was convicted for one of the 10 homicides pending against him from the series of murders in October 2002. The first five killings took place in a 15-hour spand on Oct. 2, 2002, when Muhammed and his accomplice, 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo, used a sniper rifle to execute targets in Montgomery County.
Over the next three weeks, the two terrorized the region, killing five more and wounding three others along the Interstate 95 corridor in Virginia and Maryland. Schools held recess indoors and residents crouched behind their cars while pumping gas.
The attacks came to an end when police, responding to a tip, arrested Muhammad and Malvo at a rest area off a Maryland highway. Their car, a dark-blue Chevrolet Caprice, had been rigged with a hole in the trunk through which the shooter could fire a gun without being seen.
