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Basic Facts

Maryland from October 2 - 24, 2002
Total of 10 people killed - doing everyday life things. 3 wounded.
John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo both pled guilty and both convicted with life w/o parole.
Muhammad was sentenced to death penalty in Virginia.

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Evidence

Bushmaster .223 caliber rifle
The car
Victims Laptop
Digital voice recorder
Ballistics from the bullets
Call in by one of the snipers

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Crime Scene

First murder - 55 y/o. Parking lot in Wheaton, Maryland.
By 10 o’clock, 5 more were murdered within a few miles in between.
From the bullets they found ballistics to match a gun.

The captured of the two suspects resulted in finding the .223 caliber rifle, the hole in the car, a victim's laptop, and a voice changer.

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Crime scenes and Information

On the morning of October 3, four people were shot dead within a span of approximately two hours in Aspen Hill and other nearby areas in Montgomery County. Another was killed that evening in the District of Columbia, just over the border from Silver Spring.
At 7:41 a.m., James L. Buchanan, a 39-year-old landscaper known as "Sonny", was shot dead at 11411 Rockville Pike near Rockville, Maryland. Buchanan was shot while mowing the grass at the Fitzgerald Auto Malls.

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At 8:12 a.m., 54-year-old part-time taxi driver Premkumar Walekar was killed in Aspen Hill in Montgomery County, while pumping gasoline into his taxi at a Mobil station at Aspen Hill Road and Connecticut Avenue.
At 8:37 a.m., Sarah Ramos, a 34-year-old babysitter and housekeeper, was killed at 3701 Rossmoor Boulevard at the Leisure World Shopping Center in Norbeck. She had gotten off a bus, and was seated on a bench, reading a book.

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At 9:58 a.m., in what was to be the last killing of the morning, 25-year-old Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera was killed while vacuuming her Dodge Caravan at the Shell station at the intersection of Connecticut and Knowles Avenues in Kensington, Maryland.
In each shooting, the victims were killed by a single bullet fired from some distance and in each case, the killers struck and then vanished. This pattern was not detected until after the shootings occurred on October 3.

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Fear quickly spread throughout the region as news of the shootings spread. At a press conference meeting, Charles Moose informed parents that schools were on a code blue alert; keeping children indoors and that for the time being the schools were safe. Many parents went to pick up their children at school early, not allowing them to take a school bus or walk home alone. Montgomery County Public Schools, District of Columbia Public Schools, and private schools went into a lockdown, with no recess or outdoor gym classes. Other school districts in the area also took precautionary measures, keeping students indoors.

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Police only had a few pieces of evidence to work with; including one initial report that during the Silver Spring attack someone had reportedly seen a white box truck. After the murder in Washington D.C., witnesses then began telling police that they had seen a blue Chevrolet Caprice instead of the white box truck. They also had initially believed that all the murders were carried out with the use of a .223 caliber rifle.

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Additional Info

October 2: Man killed while crossing a parking lot in Wheaton, Maryland.

October 3: Five more murders, four in Maryland and one in D.C.

October 4: Woman wounded while loading her van at Spotsylvania Mall

October 7: 13-year-old-boy wounded at a school in Bowie, Maryland

October 9: Man murdered near Manassas, Virginia, while pumping gas

October 11: Man shot dead near Fredericksburg, Virginia, while pumping gas

October 14: FBI analyst Linda Franklin killed near Falls Church, Virginia

October 19: Man wounded outside a steakhouse in Ashland, Virginia

October 22: A bus driver, the final victim, killed in Aspen Hill, Maryland

October 24: Muhammad and Malvo arrested in Maryland

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