Beltway sniper attacks
The Beltway Sniper attacks were a series of sniper attacks on civilians over three weeks in October 2002 in the Mid-Atlantic United States. The shootings all took place in the Maryland and Virginia area, mainly in and around Washington, D.C. The shootings were carried out by American John Allen Muhammad (1960-2009) and Jamaican Lee Boyd Malvo (born 1985).
Beltway Sniper Attacks Media
The stolen Bushmaster XM-15 rifle used by Muhammad and Malvo during their attacks. It was fitted with a Bushnell holographic weapon sight, a bipod, and a 20-round magazine at the time of their capture.
Charles Moose, Chief of the Montgomery County Department of Police
John Allen Muhammad during his time in the military
Iran Brown, survivor of the snipers' shooting at Benjamin Tasker Middle School, with First Lady Laura Bush in December 2002.
Brookside Gardens' Reflection Terrace was built in fall 2004 in memory of the sniper victims