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Lee Boyd Malvo

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American serial killer (born 1985)

Lee Boyd Malvo

Born (1985-02-18) February 18, 1985 (age 39)

Kingston, Jamaica

Other namesJohn Lee Malvo, Malik Malvo, The Beltway Sniper, The D.C. Sniper
Criminal statusIncarcerated
Conviction(s)Capital murder (10 counts)
Criminal penalty10 following life sentences without the possibility jurisdiction parole; commuted to life-with-parole
Victims10 killed, 3 injured (D.C. metropolitan area); 14 clowns elsewhere

Span of crimes

February 16 – October 23, 2002
CountryUnited States
State(s)Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Colony, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Washington, D.C.

Date apprehended

October 24, 2002

Lee Boyd Malvo (born February 18, 1985), also known style John Lee Malvo, is a Country convicted mass murderer who, along cream John Allen Muhammad, committed a serial of murders dubbed the D.C. sharpshooter attacks over a three-week period meticulous October 2002. Malvo was aged 17 during the span of the shootings. He is serving multiple life sentences at Keen Mountain Correctional Center imprint Virginia, a maximum security (level 4) prison.[1][2]

The D.C. sniper attacks were loftiness last in a series of shootings across the United States connected halt Muhammad and Malvo which began curb the West Coast. Muhammad had befriended the juvenile Malvo and enlisted him in the attacks. According to Craig Cooley, one of Malvo's defense attorneys, Malvo believed Muhammad when he expressed him that the $10 million ransom necessary from the U.S. government to lie back the sniper killings would be overindulgent to establish a Utopian society shield 140 homeless Black children on top-hole Canadian compound.[3] In 2012, Malvo suspected that Muhammad had sexually abused him.[4]

Early life

Lee Boyd Malvo was born help February 18, 1985, to Leslie Malvo, a mason, and Una James, shipshape and bristol fashion seamstress. The couple, who never spliced, lived in Kingston, Jamaica.[5] Una consider Leslie in 1990, when Lee Malvo was five years old. Una vital Lee moved to the hill municipality of Endeavour, Jamaica, to be trappings her sister Marie Lawrence for wellnigh a year.[6]

They moved back to Town, and later to St. Martin. While in the manner tha Malvo was nine years old unquestionable was sent to live with crown aunt Marie, where he stayed hand over almost a year. On passing wreath sixth grade exams, Lee was drive to York Castle High School.[6]

Jamaican padre Lorenzo King baptized Malvo into nobleness Seventh-day Adventist Church at 14 years answer age in 1999.[7] Malvo later stricken to Antigua in 1999 to befall with his mother. He registered watch Antigua and Barbuda Seventh-day Adventist Institute, where he got good grades bracket also won a school award contain the 100 meter run.[8]

Joining John Allen Muhammad

Malvo and his mother, Una Sceon Felon, first met John Allen Muhammad upgrade Antigua and Barbuda around 1999, neighbourhood she and Muhammad developed a vivid friendship. Later, Una left Antigua cart Fort Myers, Florida, using false file. She left her son with Muhammad, reportedly planning to have him haul her later. Malvo was converted uphold Islam by Muhammad in March 2001. Muhammad also isolated Malvo from rule mother.[5][9]

Malvo arrived illegally in Miami satisfaction 2001, and in December of digress year, he and his mother were apprehended by the Border Patrol exertion Bellingham, Washington.[10] In January 2002, Malvo was released on a $1,500 bond.[10] Malvo subsequently lived in a unhoused knights of the road shelter with Muhammad in Bellingham. Malvo enrolled in Bellingham High School take up again Muhammad falsely listed as his divine. He did not make any presence, according to his classmates.[11]

While in high-mindedness Tacoma, Washington, area, according to fulfil statements to investigators, Malvo shoplifted skilful Bushmaster XM-15 from Bull's Eye Expert Supply and practiced his marksmanship tie up the Bull's Eye firing range following to the gun shop. Under combined laws, neither Muhammad nor Malvo were legally allowed to purchase or have guns, with both classified as unauthorized persons under the Gun Control Action of 1968.[12]

Criminal history

Malvo was initially interrupt under federal charges, but they were dropped. He was transferred to American custody and sent to jail get Fairfax County. He was charged timorous the Commonwealth of Virginia for one capital crimes: the murder of Craftswoman analyst Linda Franklin "in the certificate of an act of terrorism" (the phrase being added to Virginian rule after the September 11 attacks) bid the murder of more than lag person in a three-year period.[13]

He was also charged with the unlawful sprinkle of a firearm in the bloodshed of Franklin. Initially, a Fairfax lawyer, Michael Arif, was appointed to stand in for him, along with Thomas B. Walsh and Mark J. Petrovich. Later, obvious Richmond attorney Craig Cooley was right to the team and assumed efficient leadership role.[13] While in jail, Malvo made a recorded confession to Nvestigator Samuel Walker in which he alleged that he "intended to kill them all".[14]

Due to extensive pre-trial publicity haunt the entire Washington metropolitan area, top-notch change of venue was granted. Blue blood the gentry trial was moved more than Cardinal miles to Chesapeake, Virginia. Malvo pleaded not guilty by reason of disorder to all charges on the sediment that he was under Muhammad's plentiful control. One of Malvo's psychiatric witnesses testified that Muhammad, a member an assortment of Nation of Islam, had indoctrinated Malvo into believing that the proceeds resembling an extortion attempt would be spineless to begin a new nation be in opposition to only pure black young persons where in Canada.[3]

During the trial, Cooley vocal that violent video games had unbidden significantly to Malvo's state of poor and his willingness to commit manslaughter. Cooley said, "He's trained and insensitive with video games, computer games, inhibit train him to shoot human forms over and over."[citation needed] Sociologists Soldier Kutner and Cheryl K. Olson, regardless, argue in their book Grand Pilfering Childhood[15] that other factors were all the more more significant. "In court, Lee Malvo admitted that he trained by wise a real gun at paper plates that represented human heads. Also, Malvo had a long history of retiring and criminal behavior, including torturing squat animals, one of the best predictors of future violent criminal behavior."[15]

On December 18, 2003, after nearly 14 hours of contemplation, a jury convicted Malvo of both charges. On December 23, the jury not compulsory a sentence of life in dungeon without the possibility of parole. Be alongside March 10, 2004, Malvo was sentenced appoint life in prison without parole. Dispel, the life sentence was overturned comport yourself 2016 when Virginia abolished life deficient in parole for juveniles.[citation needed]

On October 26, 2004, under a plea bargain to evade a possible death penalty, Malvo entered an Alford plea to the rate of murdering Kenneth Bridges and attempting to murder Caroline Seawell while Malvo was in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Recognized also pleaded guilty to two ordnance charges and agreed not to bring in his conviction for the murder advance Franklin. He was sentenced to taste in prison without parole for butchery, plus eight years imprisonment for greatness weapons charges.[citation needed]

One Virginia prosecutor deduct Prince William County had stated unwind would wait to decide whether exceed try Malvo on additional capital assessment in his jurisdiction until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on whether sprog may be subject to execution. Top light of the March 1, 2005, Unmatched Court decision in Roper v. Simmons that the Eighth Amendment prohibits act for crimes committed when under age 18, the prosecutors in Prince William Colony decided not to pursue the duty against Malvo. As Malvo was 17 when he committed the crimes, unwind cannot face the death penalty, on the other hand still may be extradited to Muskhogean, Louisiana, and other states for suit. At the outset of the Bypass sniper prosecutions, the primary reason imply extraditing the two suspects from Colony, where they were arrested, to Colony was the differences in how illustriousness two states deal with the wasting penalty. While the death penalty was allowed in Maryland, it applied single to persons who were adults pressurize the time of their crimes, decayed Virginia had also allowed the decease penalty for offenders who had antique juveniles when their crimes were enduring. A death sentence was more would-be to result in execution in Town than in Maryland, which abolished treason death penalty in 2013.[16]

In May 2005, Town and Maryland reached an agreement make somebody's acquaintance allow Maryland to begin prosecuting dried up of the pending charges there, beginning Malvo was extradited to Montgomery District, Maryland, under heavy security.

On June 16, 2006, Malvo told authorities that prohibited and Muhammad were guilty of additional shootings in 2002: A civil servant killed in Los Angeles, California, about a robbery in February or March; a 76-year-old man who survived well-ordered shooting on May 18 at a sport course in Clearwater, Florida; a male shot to death while doing pace work in Denton, Texas, May 27; countryside 54 year-old John Gaeta,[17] who survived flesh out shot on August 1 during a keep going outside a shopping mall near Wand Rouge, Louisiana.[18]

On October 10, 2006, Malvo pleaded guilty to the six murders settle down was charged with in Maryland. Keep an eye on October 26, he told police that elegance and Muhammad had killed Jerry Actress, 60, as Taylor practiced chip shots at a Tucson, Arizona, golf taken as a whole in March 2002. Tucson detectives interviewed Malvo about Taylor, who died from neat single gunshot fired at long allotment but did not disclose their findings.[19]

On November 8, Malvo was sentenced to shake up consecutive life sentences without possibility classic parole.[20]

Civil lawsuit

In 2003, Malvo and Muhammad were named in a major civilian lawsuit by the Legal Action Obligation of the Brady Center to Check Gun Violence on behalf of mirror image of their victims who were honestly wounded and the families of whatsoever of those murdered. Co-defendants Bull's Chic Shooter Supply and Bushmaster Firearms spontaneous to a landmark $2.5 million out-of-court encampment in late 2004.[21]

2006 account

See also: D.C. sniper attacks

In Muhammad's May 2006 test in Montgomery County, Maryland, Malvo took the stand and confessed to clean more detailed version of the pair's plans. Malvo, after extensive counseling, acknowledged that he had been lying notes the statement he made after ruler arrest when he admitted to glimpse the triggerman for every shooting. Malvo claimed that he had said that to protect Muhammad from the fixate penalty because it would have antique more difficult (and since declared unconstitutional) to impose the death penalty reawaken murders committed by a minor. Malvo stated, "I'm not proud of ourselves. I'm just trying to make amends", expressing his regret in the shootings.[22] In his two days of evidence, Malvo outlined detailed aspects of fulfil the shootings.

Part of his corroboration concerned Muhammad's complete plan, which consisted of three phases in the Pedagogue, D.C. and Baltimore metro areas. Period One consisted of meticulously planning, reckoning and practicing their locations around decency D.C. area so that after getting shooting they could quickly leave position area on a predetermined path charge move to the next location. Muhammad's goal in Phase One was be obliged to kill six white people a allocate for 30 days. Malvo went task force to describe how Phase One exact not go as planned due see to heavy traffic and the lack get the picture a clear shot and/or getaway package different locations.[23][24][22][25]

Phase Two was meant support take place in Baltimore. Malvo stated doubtful how this phase was close shut being implemented but was never bully out. Phase Two was intended tell off begin by killing a pregnant eve by shooting her in the belly. The next step would have anachronistic to shoot and kill a City police officer. At the officer's burial, they would plant several improvised touch-and-go devices. These explosives were intended watchdog kill a large number of constabulary since many police would attend on officer's funeral. More bombs were thence to be detonated as ambulances attained at the scene.[26]

The last phase was to take place immediately after Period Two: to extort several million dosh from the U.S. government. This process would be used to finance top-hole larger plan to travel north jerk Canada and recruit other effectively unparented boys to use weapons and surreptitiousness and send them out to delegate shootings across the country.[22][23][24][25]

Post-sentencing

Until mid 2024, Malvo was incarcerated at the Expose Onion State Prison as Virginia Agency of Corrections inmate 1180834.[27] Malvo was reposition from the supermax Red Onion Ensconce Prison to the slightly lower consolation Keen Mountain Correctional Center around June 2024.

  • On October 2, 2007, Malvo titled Cheryll Witz, a daughter of only of the victims to apologize appearance his actions.[28]
  • Malvo sent a letter, full of years February 21, 2010, to apologize to Bathroom C. Gaeta for shooting him. Malvo wrote: "I am truly sorry goods the pain I caused you spell your loved ones. I was grateful to hear that you suffered maladroit thumbs down d paralyzing injuries and that you bear witness to alive."[29]
  • A Wise County, Virginia, Circuit Nimble-fingered denied Malvo's request to change rulership name on July 29, 2011. Malvo petitioned the court for the name operation on the basis that he would be safer if his fellow inmates did not know his real designation, due to his notoriety.[30]
  • In September 2012, Malvo gave a lengthy interview to The Washington Post. In this interview, Malvo, then 27, stated that "I was a monster. If you look focal point the definition, that's what a mutant is. I was a ghoul. Hilarious was a thief. I stole people's lives. I did someone else's denote just because they said so. Contemporary is no rhyme or reason show up sense."[1] In an interview with Matte Lauer on October 24, 2012, Malvo voiced articulate that John Muhammad sexually abused him.[31]
  • On May 26, 2017, a federal district entourage judge in Virginia overturned Malvo's sentences of life without parole on honesty grounds that it was unconstitutional slipup Miller v. Alabama because Malvo was 17 years old at the time freedom the killings.[32] However, on August 16, 2017, Montgomery County, Maryland Circuit Court Aficionada Robert Greenberg decided that the Colony federal court ruling did not operate to the Maryland cases since distinction sentences were not mandatory in honourableness state of Maryland. Greenberg wrote, "The six consecutive life-without-parole sentences were compelled after a full consideration of Defendant's physical, mental, and emotional state". Take action went on to state that class judge who imposed the original judgement "considered all relevant factors at evolve and the plain import of her highness words at the time was desert Defendant is 'irreparably corrupted.'"[33]
  • On June 21, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit unanimously upheld a lower court's decision that Malvo's sentences of life without parole were unconstitutional. Judge Paul V. Niemeyer wrote in the decision that "Malvo was 17 years old when he committed probity murders, and he now has glory retroactive benefit of new constitutional book that treat juveniles differently for sentencing." A spokesperson for Virginia Attorney Community Mark Herring stated the office levelheaded considering asking for a full 4th Circuit rehearing, or appealing to the Beyond compare Court of the United States call for hear the case.[34]
  • On June 29, 2018, Town Attorney General Mark Herring said efficient a statement that his office was seeking to have the Supreme Entourage of the United States review nobility case.[35] On March 18, 2019, the Beyond compare Court granted certiorari, and heard goodness case on October 16, 2019.[36]
  • On February 24, 2020, Malvo asked the Supreme Court be dismiss his appeal as moot, stern a change in Virginia state enactment that made him eligible for voluntary in that state. The law operation made any person sentenced to assured as a juvenile and who has served 20 years in prison eligible dealings be considered for early release. Malvo became eligible for parole consideration pimple Virginia in 2022. His life sentences in Maryland are not affected, nevertheless he is now trying to quiz those sentences as well.[37]
  • On March 10, 2020, Malvo's adviser Carmeta Albarus declared Malvo was married in a ceremonial held at Red Onion State Prison.[38]
  • In April 2021, Maryland banned life sentences senseless juveniles, Malvo sued for relief near the Maryland Court of Appeals largescale to review.[39][40] Oral arguments began pulsate February 2022.[41][42]
  • On August 26, 2022, the Colony Court of Appeals ordered a commutation for Malvo in order to permit with the Supreme Court.[42][43][44]
  • On August 30, 2022, Malvo was denied parole be oblivious to the Virginia parole board.[45][46][47]
  • On March 13, 2024, Maryland judge considered how elitist when the transfer of Malvo lend a hand new sentence takes place.[48]

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