U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty of Virginia said if a firearm is used to carry out violence in an extortion scheme, the crime is punishable by the federal death penalty. Police believe the sniper left a ...

John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the Beltway for weeks Jessica Sager is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in ...

RICHMOND, Va. The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday upheld sniper John Allen Muhammad's murder convictions and death penalty for carrying out what it called a "cruel scheme of terror" that left 10 ...

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, acting as his own attorney at his second trial, testily cross-examined several witnesses on topics as mundane as whether a glove at one of the ...

Prosecutors must give John Allen Muhammad's attorneys statements from as many as 13 witnesses who knew the sniper suspect that might be favorable to his defense, a judge ruled yesterday. The key issue ...

VIRGINIA BEACH -- -- For weeks they've sat there -- he in plentiful locks tucked inside a black mesh Rasta hat, she in a black scarf covering her hair, ears and neck -- on the back row of the ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad won the right to act as his own lawyer Monday in a surprise, last-minute request at his murder trial, then broke a year of stony silence ...

John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the population when they went on a serial shooting spree in October 2002. Muhammad, then 41, and Malvo, then 17, shot and killed 10 people and injured ...