The Beltway/DC Snipers
Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad

Malvo Got Life, Muhammad Got Death

Who was John Muhammad?  Relatives describe a normal childhood. John married high school sweetheart Carol Ann Kaglear on 11/22/1981 in Baton Rouge. They had one son, Lindbergh, who was born 10/04/1982. Relatives said he left his wife and son, however, about the time he enlisted in the Army on 11/06/1985, serving at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Wash.

That was also about the time that he embraced Islam, relatives said. In the military, he faced disciplinary charges as well as earning honors for the Gulf War. He was discharged on 4/26/1994. With his second wife, Mildred Green, he had three children. She eventually left him in March 2000.

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Who was Lee Malvo?  Not long after Lee Malvo was born in the gritty, crime-riddled Jamaican capital his father abandoned him. Still, "he was always a mannered child," remembers his mother, "even to adults or other kids around."

In 1999 his mother uprooted her son and moved him to the Caribbean island of Antigua. She says she was in pursuit of a better life. There she obtained forged papers that allowed her to enter the United States illegally. She bought them for $1,500 from John Allen Muhammad.

Malvo's mother rejects reports that she abandoned her young son when she left Antigua and sneaked into the United States. She insists she left the boy with friends. But whatever really happened, within months Malvo was living with Muhammad.

He appears to have found the father figure he had long craved, the two called one another "father" and "son". Soon Malvo had converted to Islam like Muhammad had done 10 years previous - then he quit school.

Months later, Malvo finally did join his mother in the United States, but within weeks he ran away to join his mentor Muhammad who was now in Washington state. And the rest...is history.

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23 Days - 13 Shootings - Timeline

October 2, 2002, Wednesday, 5:20 p.m  Windows shot at craft store in the unincorporated Aspen Hill area of Montgomery County, Md. No one hurt.

October 2, 2002, Wednesday, 6:04 PM  James D. Martin, 55, of Silver Spring, Md., killed in grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Md. (Montgomery County)

October 3, 2002, Thursday, 7:41 AM  James L. "Sonny" Buchanan, 39, of Arlington, Va., killed while cutting grass auto dealership in unincorporated White Flint area.(Montgomery County)

October 3, 2002, Thursday, 8:12 AM  Taxi driver Prem Kumar Walekar, 54, of Olney, Md., killed at gas station in Rockville, Md while pumping gas. (Montgomery County)

October 3, 2002, Thursday, 8:37 AM  Sarah Ramos, 34, of Silver Spring, killed outside the post office in Silver Spring. (Montgomery County)

October 3, 2002, Thursday, 9:58 AM  Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, 25, of Silver Spring, slain as she vacuumed her van at a gas station in Kensington, Md. (Montgomery County)

October 3, 2002, 9:15 PM Thursday  Pascal Charlot, male, 72, of Washington, D.C., killed while standing on a Washington street.

October 4, 2002, 2:30 PM  Friday  43-year-old woman wounded in craft store parking lot in Fredericksburg, Va. She survived.

October 7, 2002: 8:09 AM Monday  13-year-old boy wounded as he is dropped off at school in Bowie, Md. (Prince George's County) He remains in critical condition.

October 9, 2002: 8:15 PM  Wednesday  Dean H. Meyers, a 53 year old man, killed after paying for gas at a gas station in Manassas, Va.

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October 11, 2002, 9:40 AM Friday  Fredericksburg, VA, at an Exxon Gas Station. Kenneth H. Bridges, a 53 year old man, was killed while pumping gas.

October 14, 2002  Monday, 9:14 PM  Church Falls, VA - at a Home Depot parking lot. A 47 year old woman by the name of named Linda Franklin, was shot in the head, and died at the scene.

October 19, 2002, Saturday, around 8:00 PM  Ashland, VA - A 37 year old man was shot , in a restaurant parking lot. He was in the company of his wife, and they were apparently just traveling through the state, and had stopped at a Ponderosa restaurant to get a bite to eat. Major interstates were again closed, and grid locked for hours, and still the killer remains illusive. He is in critical condition.

October 22, 2002, Tuesday, at 5:56 AM   Aspen Hill, Maryland - A 35 year old bus driver, husband, and father of two, named Conrad Johnson, was gunned down while standing on the third step of his bus, preparing his route paperwork for the day ahead. He was pronounced dead shortly after, at the hospital.

On Thursday morning, October 24, 2002, at 3:19 AM, two men were taken into police custody. John Allen Muhammad, 42, and Lee Malvo, 17, were arrested, while in the process of trying to sleep in their car in a Frederick County, Maryland rest area, off I-70. After a tip from a priest in which he heard a confession of the killing, there had been an APB put out for New Jersey 1990 blue Caprice with a license plate of N2A21Z. Shortly after hearing that message on the radio, a man drove in to a rest area, where he spotted the vehicle, and called authorities.  After impounding the car, the gun, a tripod, scope, and trap door in the trunk of the car were examined.  Ballistics and testing have confirmed that the gun found in the vehicle is the same gun that was used in 13 shootings in the DC area.

John Allen Williams/John Allen Muhammad
Military Service Record

According to the Defense Department, Muhammad began and completed his military service under the name John Allen Williams and served as follows:

From 1978 to 1985, served in the Louisiana Army National Guard
Went on active military duty in 1985, serving in the Army with:
the 15th Engineer Battalion at Fort Lewis, Washington
the 84th Engineer Company in Germany in 1990
the 13th Engineer Battalion at Fort Ord, California in 1992
the 14th Engineer Battalion at Fort Lewis, Washington in 1993
Left active military duty in 1994
Served in the Oregon Army National Guard until 1995
Williams also saw duty in the Persian Gulf War and held three military job specialties: metalworker, combat engineer and water transport specialist. His highest rank held was sergeant. His awards and decorations include the Army Achievement Medal, the National Defense Service Ribbon and the Kuwaiti Liberation Medal. He qualified as expert with both the M-16 rifle and hand grenades, according to the Department of Defense.

Due to privacy restrictions and pending court actions, the status of Williams' military discharge could not be disclosed.

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