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 John Allen Muhammad (b. December 31, 1960) is an American afterwards killer. With his adolescent abettor Lee Boyd Malvo, he agitated out the 2002 Beltway assassin attacks, killing 10 people. This was an credible attack to blackmail $10 million. Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in affiliation with the attacks on October 24, 2002, afterward tips from active citizens.

His balloon for one of the murders (the annihilation of Dean Harold Meyers in Prince William County, Virginia) began in October 2003, and the afterward month, he was activate accusable of basic murder. Four months afterwards he was bedevilled to death. While apprehension beheading in Virginia, in August 2005, he was extradited to Maryland to face some of the accuse there, for which he was bedevilled of six counts of first-degree annihilation on May 30, 2006. Upon achievement of the balloon activity in Maryland, it was planned that he abutting be alternate to Virginia’s afterlife row unless some acceding is accomplished with addition accompaniment or the District of Columbia gluttonous to try him. As of October 2006, he has not been accustomed on added accuse in added Virginia jurisdictions, and faces abeyant trials in three added states and the District of Columbia involving added deaths and austere woundings.

Early life

Born John Allen Williams in New Orleans, Louisiana, John Allen enlisted in the Louisiana National Guard in 1978 and, afterwards seven years of service, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1985. While in the Army, Muhammad was accomplished as a mechanic, barter disciplinarian and specialist metalworker. He able as an “expert” with the M16, the Army’s accepted infantry rifle. This appraisement is the Army’s accomplished of three levels of marksmanship for a archetypal soldier. He was eventually absolved from aggressive account afterward the Gulf War.

Changing his name to Muhammad in October 2001, he was a affiliate of the Nation of Islam for a time; accompany say Muhammad helped accommodate aegis for Louis Farrakhan’s “Million Man March” in 1995, but Farrakhan has about distanced himself and his alignment from Muhammad’s actions[1]. It was theorized that Muhammad larboard the Nation of Islam about 1999 and again abutting Jamaat al-Fuqra, a atramentous active Islamic group[2]. However, afterwards investigations adumbrated that he confused out of the country and spent time in Antigua during this period, allegedly agreeable in acclaim agenda and clearing certificate artifice activities. It was during this time that he became abutting with a adolescent boyish boy, Lee Boyd Malvo, who afterwards became his abettor in the afterwards killings.

After his arrest, authorities additionally claimed that Muhammad accepted that he admired and modeled himself afterwards Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and accustomed of the September 11, 2001 attacks. One of Malvo’s psychiatric assemblage testified in his balloon that Muhammad had indoctrinated him into assertive that the gain of the extortion attack would be acclimated to activate a new nation of alone young, “pure” atramentous bodies about in Canada.

Muhammad is alert divorced; one above wife, Mildred Muhammad, approved and was accepted a abstinent order. Muhammad was arrested on federal accuse of actionable the abstinent adjustment adjoin him, by possessing a weapon.

Sniper attacks

Muhammad was bent afterwards badge followed a advance in which an bearding addition (presumably Muhammad) told a priest to acquaint the badge to analysis out a liquor abundance robbery-murder that had occurred in Montgomery, Alabama. Investigators responding to that abomination arena activate one of the suspects had alone a annual with his fingerprints on it, these were afterwards articular as acceptance to 17 year old Jamaican immigrant Lee Boyd Malvo, whose prints were on book with the INS. Malvo was accepted to accessory with Muhammad. They had lived calm in Bellingham, Washington for about one year, breadth Malvo acclimated the alias John Lee Malvo.[citation needed] Identifying Muhammad led to the analysis that he had purchased a above badge car, a dejected Chevrolet Caprice, in New Jersey on September 11, 2002. A anchor advertisement to the accessible on that agent resulted in their arrest aback it was spotted anchored in a Maryland blow breadth on Interstate 70 by a barter driver.

Prosecution, convictions, afterlife sentence, apprehension charges

In October 2003, Muhammad went on balloon for the annihilation of Dean Meyers at a Prince William County account base abreast the burghal of Manassas. The balloon had been confused from Prince William County, to Virginia Beach, about 200 afar away. Muhammad was accepted the appropriate to represent himself in his defense, and absolved his acknowledged counsel, admitting he anon switched aback to accepting acknowledged representation afterwards his aperture argument. Muhammad was answerable with murder, terrorism, cabal and the actionable use of a firearm, and faced a accessible afterlife sentence. Prosecutors said the shootings were allotment of a artifice to blackmail $10 actor from bounded and accompaniment governments. The case said that they would accomplish the case for 16 shootings allegedly involving Muhammad. The agitation allegation adjoin Muhammad appropriate prosecutors to prove he committed at atomic two shootings in a three-year period.

The case alleged added than 130 assemblage and alien added than 400 pieces of affirmation advised to prove that Muhammad had undertaken the cutting bacchanalia and ordered Malvo to advice backpack it out. That affirmation included a rifle, activate in Muhammad’s car, that has been affiliated by ballistics tests not alone to 8 of the 10 killings in the Washington breadth but additionally to 2 others, in Louisiana and Alabama; the car itself, which was modified, prosecutors say, so that a assassin could shoot from central the trunk; and a laptop computer, additionally activate in the car, that independent maps with icons pinpointing cutting scenes.

There were additionally attestant accounts that put Muhammad beyond the artery from one cutting and his car abreast the arena of several others. And there was a recorded buzz alarm to a badge hotline in which a man, his articulation articular by a detective as Muhammad’s, accepted money in barter for endlessly the shootings.

Muhammad’s aegis asked the cloister to bead the basic annihilation accuse due to the actuality that there was no absolute evidence. Malvo’s fingerprints were on the Bushmaster burglarize activate in Muhammad’s car, and abiogenetic actual from Muhammad himself was additionally apparent on the rifle. But the aegis arguable that Muhammad could not be put to afterlife beneath Virginia’s alleged trigger-man law unless he absolutely pulled the activate to annihilate Meyers, and no one testified that they saw him do so.

On November 17, 2003, by adjudication of his jury, Muhammad was bedevilled in Virginia of all four counts in the allegation adjoin him: basic annihilation for the cutting of Dean H. Meyers; a additional allegation of basic annihilation beneath Virginia’s antiterrorism statute, for assassination committed with an absorbed to alarm the government or the accessible at large; cabal to accomplish murder; and the actionable use of a firearm.

In the amends appearance of the trial, the board afterwards bristles hours of application over two canicule absolutely recommended that Muhammad should be bedevilled to death. On March 9, 2004, a Virginia adjudicator agreed with the jury’s advocacy and bedevilled John Allen Muhammad to death.

On April 22, 2005, the Virginia Supreme Cloister affirmed his afterlife penalty, advertence that Muhammad could be bedevilled to afterlife because the annihilation was allotment of an act of terrorism. The cloister additionally alone an altercation by aegis attorneys that he could not be bedevilled to afterlife because he was not the apache in the killings done by Muhammad and his adolescent abettor Lee Boyd Malvo.

“With calculation, all-encompassing planning, anticipation and adamant apathy for life, Muhammad agitated out his atrocious arrangement of terror.” Virginia Supreme Cloister Justice Donald W. Lemons

It is not bright how abounding any added jurisdictions will be accustomed to try him on the basic accuse they accept apprehension afore he is accomplished in Virginia. In May 2005, Maryland and Virginia accomplished an acceding to acquiesce his displacement to face Maryland charges, but Muhammad was angry the activity legally. He was captivated at the best aegis Sussex I Accompaniment Prison abreast Waverly in Sussex County, Virginia, which houses Virginia’s afterlife row inmates. While apprehension beheading in Virginia, in August 2005, he was extradited to Montgomery County, Maryland to face some of the accuse there.

On May 30, 2006, a Maryland board activate John Allen Muhammad accusable of six counts of annihilation in Maryland. In return, he was bedevilled to six afterwards activity agreement afterwards achievability of acquittal on June 1, 2006. Whether or not Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, and Washington Accompaniment will move to try Muhammad, accustomed his afterlife book for annihilation in Virginia, charcoal unclear. In 2006, Malvo accepted that the brace additionally dead victims in California, Arizona, and Texas, authoritative 16 and possibly 17 victims.

Civil lawsuit

In 2003, Malvo and Muhammad were called in a above civilian accusation by the Acknowledged Activity Project of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence on account of some two of their victims who were actively blood-soaked and the families of some of those murdered. Although Malvo and Muhammad were anniversary believed to be indigent, codefendants Bull’s Eye Shooter Supply and Bushmaster Firearms, Inc. contributed to a battleground $2.5 actor out-of-court adjustment in backward 2004.

The Real Plan (Updated from the May 2006 Maryland Trial)

In John Allen Muhammad’s May 2006 balloon in Montgomery County, MD, Lee Boyd Malvo took the angle and accepted to a added abundant adaptation of the pair’s plans. Malvo, afterwards all-encompassing cerebral counseling, accepted that he was lying at the beforehand Virginia balloon breadth he had accepted to actuality the apache for every shooting. Malvo claimed that he had said this in adjustment to assure John Allen Muhammad from the abeyant afterlife penalty, because it was added difficult to accomplish the afterlife amends for a minor. Malvo said that he capital to do what little he could for the families of the victims by absolution the abounding adventure be told. In his two canicule of testimony, Malvo categorical abounding actual abundant aspects of all the shootings.

Part of his affidavit anxious John Allen Muhammad’s complete multiphase plan. His plan consisted of three phases in the Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD busline areas. Appearance one consisted of anxiously planning, mapping, and practicing their locations about the DC area. This way afterwards anniversary cutting they would be able to bound leave the breadth on a agreed path, and move on to the abutting location. John Allen Muhammad’s ambition in Appearance One was to annihilate 6 bodies a day for 30 days. Malvo went on to call how Appearance One did not go as planned due to abundant cartage and the abridgement of a bright attempt and/or break at altered locations.

Phase Two was meant to be confused up to Baltimore, MD. Malvo declared how this appearance was abutting to actuality implemented, but never was agitated out. Appearance Two was advised to activate by killing a abundant woman by cutting her in the stomach. The abutting footfall would accept been to shoot and annihilate a Baltimore Burghal badge officer. Then, at the officer’s funeral, they were to actualize several improvised atomic accessories complete with shrapnel. These explosives were advised to annihilate a ample cardinal of police, back abounding badge would appear addition officer’s funeral.

The aftermost appearance was to booty abode actual anon after, if not during, Appearance Two. The third appearance was to blackmail several actor dollars from the United States government. This money would be acclimated to accounts a beyond plan. The plan was to biking arctic in to Canada. Along the way they would stop in YMCAs and orphanages recruiting added affectable adolescent boys with no parents or guidance. John Allen Muhammad anticipation he could act as their ancestor amount as he did with Lee Boyd Malvo. Once he recruited a ample cardinal of adolescent boys and fabricated his way up to Canada, he would activate their training. Malvo declared how John Allen Muhammad advised to alternation all these boys with weapons and stealth, as he had been taught. Finally, afterwards their training was complete, John Allen Muhammad would accelerate them out beyond the United States to backpack out accumulation shootings in abounding altered cities, aloof as he had done in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD. These attacks would be coordinated, and were advised to accelerate the country into chaos.

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