Timeline Thursday 24 October 2002

Events on Thursday 24 October 2002 1

• 2002 Beltway sniper attacks Three weeks of random shootings around Washington For three weeks in October 2002, John Allen Muhammad and the teenager Lee Boyd Malvo shot people at random around Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia, killing ten and wounding others while firing from a hole cut in the boot of a car. The region was gripped by fear as police pursued misleading leads. The pair were arrested at a highway rest stop on 24 October, and Muhammad was later executed.