1 of 2 FILE – This photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows Lee Boyd Malvo. Virginia has denied parole to convicted sniper killer Malvo, ruling he remains a danger to the community two decades after he and his partner terrorized the Washington, D.C., area with a series of random shootings. The Virginia parole board denied his request on Aug. 30, 2022 (Virginia Department of Corrections via AP, File) 1 of 2 FILE – This photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows Lee Boyd Malvo. Virginia has denied parole to convicted sniper killer Malvo, ruling he remains a danger to the community two decades after he and his partner terrorized the Washington, D.C., area with a series of random shootings. The Virginia parole board denied his request on Aug. 30, 2022 (Virginia Department of Corrections via AP, File) RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Virginia has denied parole to convicted sniper killer Lee Boyd Malvo, ruling he remains a danger to the community two decades after he and his partner terrorized the Washington, D.C., area with a series of random shootings . . Malvo was 17 when he and John Allen Muhammad shot and killed 10 people and wounded three others over a three-week period in October 2002. Scores of other victims were shot and killed across the country in the previous months as the duo drove to the capital country from Washington state. Malvo was convicted of manslaughter in Virginia and sentenced to life in prison without parole. But a series of Supreme Court decisions and a change in Virginia law gave Malvo the chance to seek parole after nearly 20 years in prison. The Virginia Board of Parole denied his request on Aug. 30, finding that Malvo remains a danger to the community and should serve more of his sentence before parole, according to state Parole Board decision records for August. “Parole at this time would lessen the seriousness of the crime. Serious nature and circumstances of your offense or offences,” the parole board wrote. Malvo’s accomplice, John Allen Muhammad, was executed in Virginia in 2009. Malvo, now 37, was sentenced to life without parole for the three Virginia murders. But after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that mandatory life sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional, two federal courts found that Malvo was entitled to new sentencing hearings. Virginia’s legislature also passed a law in 2020 that gave juvenile offenders the chance to seek parole after 20 years of assessment. Malvo was a 15-year-old from Jamaica who had been sent to live in Antigua when he met the much older Muhammad. Muhammad trained and indoctrinated Malvo, and in 2002 the pair began a nationwide killing spree that ended with 10 murders in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Court testimony indicated that the shootings were a plan for Muhammad to regain custody of his children by killing his ex-wife and making her death appear to be the result of random violence. Malvo is serving his sentence at the maximum security Red Onion State Prison in Virginia. Even though Malvo had been paroled in Virginia, he was also sentenced to life in prison in Maryland for crimes in the neighboring state. Last month, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled that Malvo must be re-sentenced for his crimes there.
