The D. Seven people were killed, and seven others were injured in the preliminary shootings, and ten people were killed and three others were critically wounded in the October shootings. The snipers were two men, John Allen Muhammad 41 years old at the time and Lee Boyd Malvo 17 years old at the time , who traveled in a blue Chevrolet Caprice sedan. In , Muhammad was sentenced to death , and in , he was executed by lethal injection. Malvo, a juvenile, received six life sentences in Maryland and three in Virginia.
In , Malvo's life sentences in Virginia were vacated without parole on appeal. Cook's aunt, Isa Nichols, had been good friends with John Allen Muhammad's ex-wife Mildred and had encouraged her to seek a divorce.
On March 19, , Jerry Taylor, 60, was killed by a single shot to the chest fired from long range as he practiced chip shots at a Tucson, Arizona , golf course. Two deaths and four injuries followed in other states from March through July Malvo then shot him in the neck. Gaeta ran to a service station after Malvo left and discovered that he was bleeding; he went to a hospital and was released within an hour. On September 5, , at p. LaRuffa survived the shooting, and his laptop computer was found in Muhammad's car when he and Malvo were arrested.
Oberoi survived the shooting. Rashid later identified Malvo as the shooter in court. On September 21, , at a. Waldemariam was fatally shot in the head and back with a. Waldemariam was helping the owner of a Sammy's Package Store close up for the night when the shooting occurred. Nineteen hours later on the same day, Claudine Parker, [ 13 ] a year-old liquor store clerk in Montgomery, Alabama , was shot in the chest and killed during a robbery.
Her coworker, year-old Kellie Adams, was critically wounded with a shot through the neck but survived. Evidence found at the crime scene eventually tied this killing to the Beltway attacks and allowed authorities to identify Muhammad and Malvo as suspects, [ 14 ] although this connection was not made until October 17, almost four weeks later.
