CNN breaking news popped up on the TV last night:
-- John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the Washington-area sniper attacks in 2002, has been executed, official says.........I remember this all too clearly while living @ home in Northern, VA ....we as a family were terrified while this was going on. We had never experienced anything like it before. We were scared to get gas, go to the grocery store, walk down the street, drive to work, go to school...etc. What this man did was awful. He has now paid for it...We all had our eyes peeled-we kept watching our backs-being too careful never crossed our minds....we had no idea when & where he would hit again.
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The Beltway sniper attacks took place during three weeks in October 2002 in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Ten people were killed and three others critically injured in various locations throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia. It was widely speculated that a single sniper was using the Capital Beltway for travel, possibly in a white van or truck. It was later learned that the rampage was perpetrated by one man, John Allen Muhammad, and one minor, Lee Boyd Malvo, driving a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice sedan, and had apparently begun the month before with murders and robbery in Louisiana and Alabama, which had resulted in three deaths.[1] In September 2003, Muhammad was sentenced to death, while a month later, Malvo was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. Muhammad was executed by lethal injection in November 2009.
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