John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the Beltway for weeks Jessica Sager is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in ...

U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty of Virginia said if a firearm is used to carry out violence in an extortion scheme, the crime is punishable by the federal death penalty. Police believe the sniper left a ...

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, acting as his own attorney at his second trial, testily cross-examined several witnesses on topics as mundane as whether a glove at one of the ...

RICHMOND, Va. The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday upheld sniper John Allen Muhammad's murder convictions and death penalty for carrying out what it called a "cruel scheme of terror" that left 10 ...

Prosecutors must give John Allen Muhammad's attorneys statements from as many as 13 witnesses who knew the sniper suspect that might be favorable to his defense, a judge ruled yesterday. The key issue ...

The panel deliberated for about 61/2 hours before convicting Muhammad of two counts of capital murder. One accused him of taking part in multiple murders, the other -- the result of a post-Sept. 11 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH -- -- For weeks they've sat there -- he in plentiful locks tucked inside a black mesh Rasta hat, she in a black scarf covering her hair, ears and neck -- on the back row of the ...

MANASSAS, Va. (AP) -- Sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad was sentenced to death Tuesday by a judge who called the Washington-area shootings that left 10 people dead "so vile that they were almost ...

John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the population when they went on a serial shooting spree in October 2002. Muhammad, then 41, and Malvo, then 17, shot and killed 10 people and injured ...