The beltway snipers John Allen Muhammad and his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo were responsible for 20 shootings across seven states, killing 17 people and wounding seven.
Ten people died in Washington, Maryland and Virginia between sunset Oct. 2 and sunrise Oct. 22, 2002, in the spree of random attacks. One man was shot while mowing a lawn, another pumping gas. A woman was killed while vacuuming her minivan. The victims included immigrants from Haiti and India, an African American and a 13-year-old boy headed to school. The attacks so terrorized the region that events were canceled and schoolchildren were kept inside.
Their “mission,” said one of the many mental-health experts who have conducted jailhouse interviews with Malvo, 18, was to incite a racial revolution over the “continued oppression of black people” and to set up a utopian black colony in Canada based on racial and social justice.
That makes all their killings hate crimes doesn't it paul?
As Lee Boyd Malvo's trial winds down, a clearer picture takes shape of the killing pair.
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