Appeals court claims DC sniper, Bellingham native Lee Boyd Malvo must be resentenced

A Maryland Appeals Court ruled that Lee Boyd Malvo, who was convicted for his involvement in a shooting spree that killed 10 people in Washington D.C. in October 2002, must be resentenced.

Malvo and his mentor, John Allen Muhammad, shot people in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. during a three-week period in 2002 with a sniper rifle in what is now known as the D.C. sniper attacks or the Beltway sniper attacks. Malvo was 17 at the time while Muhammad was 41.

Their crime spree started months earlier, as the pair committed murders and robberies in the states of Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas before heading to

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