Lee Boyd Malvo (also known as John Lee Malvo or Malik Malvo) (born February 18, 1985), is a Jamaican convicted of mass murder. He, along with John Allen Muhammad, was arrested on October 24, 2002 in connection with the Beltway sniper attacks throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area. These turned out to be only the last of a series of shootings across the United States which began on the West Coast. Muhammad had befriended the juvenile Malvo, a...
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Lee Boyd Malvo (also known as John Lee Malvo or Malik Malvo) (born February 18, 1985), is a Jamaican convicted of mass murder. He, along with John Allen Muhammad, was arrested on October 24, 2002 in connection with the Beltway sniper attacks throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area. These turned out to be only the last of a series of shootings across the United States which began on the West Coast. Muhammad had befriended the juvenile Malvo, and had enlisted him in the murderous rampage under some false pretenses and influences which are still not fully understood by authorities. For example, 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 US government to stop the sniper killings would be used to establish a Utopian society for 140 black homeless children on a Canadian compound.
Malvo ultimately cooperated with investigators, and is serving multiple life sentences without the...
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