May 30, 2006 4:01 pm US/Eastern
Timeline Of Sniper Killings
Rockville, MD (AP) ―
A Montgomery County jury today convicted John Allen Muhammad in six of the ten killings during the Washington-area sniper spree in October 2002. Those six victims were:
-- James Martin, 55, of Silver Spring. Killed October 2, 2002. A Vietnam veteran and program analyst for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. His father died when he was eight, and he worked his way through college. Martin had an eleven-year-old son and was a Boy Scout leader, school volunteer and church trustee.
-- Sonny Buchanan, 39, of Abingdon, Virginia. Killed October 3, 2002. A landscaper, he served on the regional board of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and volunteered with a Crime Solvers hot line. He had moved from Maryland to Virginia, where he and his father owned a Christmas tree farm, but still honored a contract to mow the lawn outside Fitzgerald Auto Mall in White Flint. He was mowing the lawn when he was killed.
-- Premkumar Walekar, 54, of Olney. Killed October 3, 2002. He was a cab driver who immigrated at age 18 from India, where he was getting ready to spend his retirement. Relatives said he worked hard, sent money to his father in India and helped bring his siblings to America. They remembered him as a quiet man with a good sense of humor.
-- Sarah Ramos, 34, of Silver Spring. Killed October 3, 2002. Friends described Ramos, a native of El Salvador who worked as a baby sitter, as a hardworking immigrant who dreamed of building a prosperous life. Ramos was remembered as a cheerful, fun-loving wife and a doting mother of a 7-year-old son. She belonged to several church groups.
-- Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, 25, of Silver Spring. Killed October 3, 2002. Originally of Mountain Home, Idaho, she decided in junior high school that she wanted to become a nanny. After high school, she went to a nanny school in Oregon.
-- Conrad Johnson, 35, of Oxon Hill. Killed October 22, 2002. Johnson, a married father of two sons, was a bus driver who had worked for Montgomery County for nearly ten years. Johnson was a football fan, weightlifter and a family man.
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