John Allen Muhammad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Allen Muhammad

American serial killer, co-perpetrator in the "DC Sniper Case"

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1960

Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 10-Nov-2009

Profession: serial killer, spree killer, criminal sniper

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About John Allen Muhammad

  • John Allen Muhammad (December 31, 1960 – November 10, 2009) was an American convicted murderer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • He, along with his partner / accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo (aged 17), a native of Kingston, Jamaica, carried out the D.C.
  • sniper attacks of October 2002, killing 10 people.
  • Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in connection with the attacks on October 24, 2002, following tips from alert citizens.
  • Although the pair's actions were classified by the media as psychopathy attributable to serial killer characteristics, whether or not their psychopathy meets this classification or that of a spree killer is debated by researchers.Born as John Allen Williams, Muhammad joined the Nation of Islam in 1987 and later changed his surname to Muhammad.
  • At Muhammad's trial, the prosecutor claimed that the rampage was part of a plot to kill his ex-wife and regain custody of his children, but the judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to support this argument.His trial for one of the murders (that of Dean Harold Meyers in Prince William County, Virginia) began in October 2003, and the following month he was found guilty of capital murder.
  • Four months later he was sentenced to death.
  • While awaiting execution in Virginia, in August 2005, he was extradited to Maryland to face some of the charges there.
  • He was convicted of six counts of first-degree murder on May 30, 2006.
  • Upon completion of the trial activity in Maryland, Muhammad was returned to Virginia's death row pending an agreement with another state or the District of Columbia seeking to try him.
  • He was not tried on additional charges in other Virginia jurisdictions, and faced potential trials in three other states and the District of Columbia involving other murders and attempted murders.
  • All appeals of his conviction for killing Dean Harold Meyers had been made and rejected.
  • Appeals for Muhammad's other trials remained pending at the time of his execution.Muhammad was executed by lethal injection on November 10, 2009, at 9:06 p.m.
  • EST at the Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt, Virginia, and was pronounced dead at 9:11 p.m.
  • EST.
  • Muhammad declined to make a final statement.

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