Lee Boyd Malvo

"Malvo" redirects here. For the fictional antagonist on the TV series Fargo, see Lorne Malvo. For the character in Everybody Hates Chris, see List of Everybody Hates Chris characters § Malvo.

Lee Boyd Malvo
Born (1985-02-18) February 18, 1985 (age 39)
Kingston, Jamaica
Other namesJohn Lee Malvo, Malik Malvo, The Beltway Sniper, The D.C. Sniper
Criminal statusIncarcerated
Conviction(s)Capital murder (10 counts)
Criminal penalty10 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole; commuted to life-with-parole
Details
Victims10 killed, 3 injured (D.C. metropolitan area); 14 victims elsewhere
Span of crimes
February 16 – October 23, 2002
CountryUnited States
State(s)Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Washington, D.C.
Date apprehended
October 24, 2002

Lee Boyd Malvo (born February 18, 1985), also known as John Lee Malvo, is a Jamaican convicted mass murderer who, along with John Allen Muhammad, committed a series of murders dubbed the D.C. sniper attacks over a three-week period in October 2002. Malvo was aged 17 during the span of the shootings. He is serving multiple life sentences at Keen Mountain Correctional Center in Virginia, a maximum security (level 4) prison.[1][2]

The D.C. sniper attacks were the last in a series of shootings across the United States connected to Muhammad and Malvo which began on the West Coast. Muhammad had befriended the juvenile Malvo and enlisted him in the attacks. According to Craig Cooley, one of Malvo's defense attorneys, Malvo believed Muhammad when he told him that the $10 million ransom sought from the U.S. government to stop the sniper killings would be used to establish a Utopian society for 140 homeless Black children on a Canadian compound.[3] In 2012, Malvo claimed that Muhammad had sexually abused him.[4]

  1. ^ White, Josh (September 29, 2012). "Lee Boyd Malvo, 10 years after D.C. area sniper shootings: 'I was a monster'". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  2. ^ Inmate Locator - Virginia Department of Corrections
  3. ^ Siegel, Andrea F.; Wilson, Kimberly A.C. (November 14, 2003). "Malvo depicted as sad, sinister". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on December 2, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  4. ^ "In interview DC sniper says he was sexually abused". Associated Press. October 25, 2012. Archived from the original on September 13, 2014. Retrieved September 12, 2014.