John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, known as the “Beltway Snipers,” terrorized Virginia, Maryland, and the Washington, DC area in October 2002.
Residents altered their lives to be safe during three weeks of terror. Schools and churches were closed, and people were at risk of going outside because of random shootings from a hole in the back panel of their car.
Before they were captured, the pair had killed ten and wounded three people in the DC area. They had killed seven and injured seven others in other places. They were arrested in Maryland on October 24, 2002.
At the time, Muhammad was 41 years old, and Malvo was 17. Muhammad was sentenced to death and executed in 2009 for the murders. Malvo was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
In recent news
If you are wondering why this is news, it is because WTOP News reported that Malvo, now 39 years old, was recently transferred from Red Onion State Prison, a supermax prison in Wise, Virginia, where he had been incarcerated for 20 years. His new home is now the Keen Mountain Correctional Center, a lower-level security prison in Oakwood, Virginia.