Nov 8, 2006 8:32 pm US/Eastern
Sniper Malvo Gets Life In Prison For 2002 Murders
Rockville, Md (AP) ―
Convicted sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for six murders in Maryland that were part of a three-week shooting spree that terrorized the Washington area in 2002.
WJZ's Derek Valcourt reports on what some see as a fitting sentence for a troubled young man who caused so much fear in the Washington/Baltimore area.
The Maryland trial in Montgomery County Circuit Court included Malvo's chilling insider account of his trip across the country with accomplice and mentor John Allen Muhammad.
Malvo, 21, pleaded guilty in October to the murders in Montgomery County, where the spree of 13 shootings began and ended in October 2002.
Some of the family members of the victims who died in Maryland were in the courtroom during Wednesday's proceedings.
The mother of slain bus driver Conrad Johnson said she has forgiven Malvo, "Because my continuance of this hatred would not bring Conrad back and this kid is going to suffer for the rest of his life."
Despite Wednesday's decision, It is unlikely, that Malvo will ever serve time in a Maryland prison. He has already been sentenced to life in prison in Virginia for sniper shootings there and was sent to Maryland last year for a new trial on the condition he be returned after his case ended.
That could happen within the next several days, said Darren Popkin, Montgomery County's chief deputy sheriff
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