John Allen Muhammad (born John Allen Williams) was executed in 2009 by lethal injection for his part in the 2002 Beltway shootings in the Washington, D.C., area.
A native of New Orleans, he served in the National Guard and later in the Army, reaching the rank of sergeant before leaving the service in 1994.
Twice divorced, he was visiting his children in 1999 in Antigua, where he met teenager Lee Boyd Malvo, who became his partner in the fatal shootings of at least 10 people--7 in Maryland, 5 in Virginia and one in the District of Columbia. Three more people were wounded by the Beltway shooters.
It is thought that the two men might have killed as many as 11 more people.
The two were captured in Maryland after Malvo's fingerprints were found on a magazine he dropped during the robbery of a Montgomery, Ala., liquor store.
Muhammad had converted to the Nation of Islam in 2001, and at that time dropped the family name Williams.
Muhammad's role model was Osama bin Laden, and testimony in Malvo's trial indicated that the two had an elaborate scheme to kill more Americans and to extort millions of dollars from the federal government.
Muhammad was tried or murder in Virginia in 2003 and was found guilty. In 2005, he was tried and convicted in Maryland of six more murders. He received the death penalty.
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