Nearly 20 years after he had the nation’s capital on edge, Washington, D.C., sniper, Lee Boyd Malvo, has been denied parole.
Malvo, who was 17 at the time, and John Allen Muhammad shot and killed 10 people in the Washington, D.C., area in October 2002, The Washington Post reported.
Three others were wounded during the three-week-long shooting spree, The Associated Press reported.
Malvo was 15 and moved from Jamaica to Antigua where he met Muhammad, who officials said trained and indoctrinated Malvo before coming to the U.S., the AP reported.
The Washington Post reported that the pair had traveled together, killing people in five states before arriving in the D.C. area, officials claimed.
Malvo and Muhammad were captured in Maryland.
Malvo is now serving three life sentences for the killing of three people in Virginia.
He was convicted at trial in 2003 of the killing of Linda Franklin in Fairfax County, Virginia, then pleaded guilty to two killings in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Malvo also pleaded guilty to six additional killings in Montgomery County, Maryland, and received six more life sentences.
The Supreme Court in 2012 restricted sentencing juveniles to life without parole, giving Malvo an opening to ask for parole after serving two decades in prison, the AP reported.
The state General Assembly passed a law in 2020 that allowed juveniles who were serving sentences of 20 years to life to be allowed to apply for parole.
But the Virginia Parole Board rejected his request for release on Aug. 30, saying that he is still a risk to the community and should serve more time before being released, the AP reported.
Malvo has also been ordered by the Maryland Court of Appeals to be resentenced there because of the Supreme Court ruling, the AP reported.
Muhammad was convicted in 2003 in Prince William County of killing Dean Meyers and sentenced to death, which was carried out in 2009, the Post reported.
Malvo is serving his sentence at Red Onion State Prison, a super-maximum security prison in Virginia, the AP reported.
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