View this post on Instagram The D.C. sniper attacks (also known as the Beltway sniper attacks) were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October of 2002 in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Ten people were killed and three others were critically wounded in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia. The snipers were John Allen Muhammad (aged 41 at the time) and Lee Boyd Malvo (aged 17 at the time,) who traveled in a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice sedan. Their crime spree, begun in February of 2002, included murders and robberies in the states of Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, and Washington, which resulted in seven deaths and seven wounded people; in ten months, the snipers killed 17 people and wounded 10 others. At the 2006 trial of Muhammad, Malvo testified that the aim of the killing spree was to kidnap children for the purpose of extorting money from the government and to "set up a camp to train children how to terrorize cities," with the ultimate goal being to "shut things down" across the United States. In September of 2003, Muhammad was sentenced to death, and in October, the juvenile, Malvo, was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences without parole. In November of 2009, Muhammad was put to death by lethal injection. A memorial to the victims of the D.C. area sniper attacks is located at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Maryland (2002) #2000shistory #history #dcsniper #beltwaysniper #johnallenmuhammad #leeboydmalvo #terrorism #washingtondc #historyinpictures #ilovehistory #historygram #historygeek #historybuff #historical A post shared by @ 2000s.history on Mar 4, 2020 at 8:47am PST
The D.C. sniper attacks (also known as the Beltway sniper attacks) were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October of 2002 in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Ten people were killed and three others were critically wounded in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia. The snipers were John Allen Muhammad (aged 41 at the time) and Lee Boyd Malvo (aged 17 at the time,) who traveled in a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice sedan. Their crime spree, begun in February of 2002, included murders and robberies in the states of Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, and Washington, which resulted in seven deaths and seven wounded people; in ten months, the snipers killed 17 people and wounded 10 others. At the 2006 trial of Muhammad, Malvo testified that the aim of the killing spree was to kidnap children for the purpose of extorting money from the government and to "set up a camp to train children how to terrorize cities," with the ultimate goal being to "shut things down" across the United States. In September of 2003, Muhammad was sentenced to death, and in October, the juvenile, Malvo, was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences without parole. In November of 2009, Muhammad was put to death by lethal injection. A memorial to the victims of the D.C. area sniper attacks is located at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Maryland (2002) #2000shistory #history #dcsniper #beltwaysniper #johnallenmuhammad #leeboydmalvo #terrorism #washingtondc #historyinpictures #ilovehistory #historygram #historygeek #historybuff #historical
A post shared by @ 2000s.history on Mar 4, 2020 at 8:47am PST