It was just another fall evening in the nation’s capital-until a sniper’s bullet struck down a 55-year-old man in a parking lot in Wheaton, Maryland. Both were sentenced to life without parole Muhammad also received the death penalty in Virginia. Maps, walkie-talkies, and many more items.īoth Malvo and Muhammad were convicted at trial or pled guilty in multiple court cases in Maryland and Virginia. A laptop stolen from one of the victims containing maps of the shooting sites and getaway routes from some of the crime scenes and.The digital voice recorder used by both Malvo and Muhammad to make extortion demands.

The Chevy Caprice owner’s manual with-the FBI Laboratory later detected-written impressions of the one of the demand notes.

A backseat that had the sheet metal removed between the passenger compartment and the trunk, enabling the shooter to get into the trunk from inside the car.

A rifle’s scope for taking aim and a tripod to steady the shots.

223-caliber rifle that had been used in each attack It was, in effect, a rolling sniper’s nest. The car had a hole cut in the trunk near the license plate (see photo below, left) so that shots could be fired from within the vehicle. What evidence experts from the FBI and other police forces found there was both revealing and shocking.

Just a few hours earlier, at approximately 11:45 p.m., their dark blue 1990 Chevy Caprice-bearing the New Jersey license plate NDA-21Z, which had been widely publicized on the news only hours earlier-had been spotted at a rest stop parking lot off I-70 in Maryland (see photos right). Within the hour, law enforcement swarmed the scene, setting up a perimeter to check out any movements and make sure there’d be no escape.

That morning, the hunt for the snipers quickly came to an end, when a team of Maryland State Police, Montgomery County SWAT officers, and agents from our Hostage Rescue Team arrested the sleeping John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo without a struggle.

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