Beltway Sniper

Beltway sniper attacks
Locations of the fifteen sniper attacks in the D.C. area numbered chronologically.
Location	Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Date	February 16, 2002 – September 26, 2002 (preliminary shootings) October 2, 2002 – October 24, 2002 (sniper attacks)
Target	Civilians in the Washington metropolitan area
Attack type	Spree killing, mass murder, domestic terrorism
Weapons	Bushmaster XM-15 rifle
Deaths	17 total: 10 in the Beltway sniper attacks 7 in preliminary shootings
Non-fatal injuries	10 total: 3 in the Beltway sniper attacks 7 in preliminary shootings
Perpetrators	John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo

17 total:

10 total:

The D.C. or Beltway sniper attacks were a series of coordinated shootings that took place over three weeks in October 2002 in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Ten people were killed and three other victims were critically injured in several locations throughout the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia. The rampage was perpetrated by John Allen Muhammad (then aged 42) and Lee Boyd Malvo (then 17), driving a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice sedan. Their crime spree began in February 2002 with murders and robberies in the states of Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, and Washington, which resulted in seven deaths and seven injuries, bringing the ten-month shooting spree total to 17 deaths and 10 injuries.

In September 2003, Muhammad was sentenced to death. One month later, Malvo was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. On November 10, 2009, Muhammad was executed by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt, Virginia.

On February 16, 2002, Keenya Cook was shot and killed at the front door of her home in Tacoma, Washington.