D.C. Sniper Pair Won’t Face Trial in State
From Times Wire Reports
Sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad and his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo will not face charges for a slaying in the state months before they went on their rampage in and around the nation’s capital, prosecutors said in Tacoma.
Prosecutor Jerry Costello said there would little point in putting on an expensive trial for the February 2002 shooting death of Keenya Cook since the pair already face the death penalty or life in prison in Virginia.
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