Lee Boyd Malvo (born 18 February 1985), also known as John Lee Malvo, is a Jamaican convicted mass murderer who, along with John Allen Muhammad, committed a series of murders dubbed the D.C. sniper attacks over a three-week period in October 2002. Malvo was aged 17 during the span of the shootings. He is serving multiple life sentences at Keen Mountain Correctional Center in Virginia, a maximum security (level 4) prison.
The D.C. sniper attacks were the last in a series of shootings across the United States connected to Muhammad and Malvo that began on the West Coast. Muhammad had befriended the juvenile Malvo and enlisted him in the attacks. According to Craig Cooley, one of Malvo's defense attorneys, Malvo believed Muhammad when he told him that the $10 million ransom sought from the U.S. government to stop the sniper killings would be used to establish a Utopian society for 140 homeless Black children on a Canadian compound. In 2012, Malvo claimed that Muhammad had sexually abused him.
Timeline of Shootings: 2002[]
- October 2: Man killed while crossing a parking lot in Wheaton, Maryland
- October 3: Five more murders, four in Maryland and one in D.C.
- October 4: Woman wounded while loading her van at Spotsylvania Mall
- October 7: 13-year-old-boy wounded at a school in Bowie, Maryland
- October 9: Man murdered near Manassas, Virginia, while pumping gas
- October 11: Man shot dead near Fredericksburg, Virginia, while pumping gas
- October 14: FBI analyst Linda Franklin killed near Falls Church, Virginia
- October 19: Man wounded outside a steakhouse in Ashland, Virginia
- October 22: A bus driver, the final victim, killed in Aspen Hill, Maryland
- October 24: Muhammad and Malvo arrested in Maryland
Malvo's accomplice, Muhammad, was executed by lethal injection in 2009. Malvo is serving a life sentence at a prison in Virginia. The pair were linked to 27 shootings across the country, including one in Tucson and 10 fatal attacks in the Washington area.
On 10 March 2020, Malvo's adviser Carmeta Albarus announced Malvo was married. He married Sable Noel Knapp, a wealthy political activist and heiress to a family of property developers. They had a low-key civil ceremony at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia on 6 March 2020.