
On March 19, 2002, Jerry Taylor, 60, was killed by a single shot to the chest fired from long range as he practiced chip shots at a Tucson, Arizona golf course. Cook's aunt, Isa Nichols, had been good friends with John Allen Muhammad's ex-wife Mildred and had encouraged her to seek a divorce. On February 16, 2002, 21-year-old cashier Keenya Nicole Cook was shot and killed by Lee Malvo at the front door of her aunt's home in Tacoma, Washington. 2 Attacks in the Baltimore–Washington Area.Supreme Court case was dismissed at the request of lawyers on both sides. On February 25, 2020, after the passage of a Virginia law allowing those who are serving life sentences for offenses committed before the age of 18 to seek release after serving 20 years, the U.S. The ruling does not apply to the six life sentences Malvo received in Maryland. Should he be resentenced, Malvo's minimum prison sentence will be determined by a judge the available maximum sentence would be life imprisonment. Supreme Court granted certiorari, with oral arguments held on October 16, 2019. 2455 (2012), which held that mandatory life sentences for juvenile criminals without possibility of parole violated the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. In 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated Malvo's three life sentences without parole in Virginia on appeal, with re-sentencing ordered pursuant to the Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Miller v. In November 2009, Muhammad was put to death by lethal injection. In September 2003, Muhammad was sentenced to death, and in October, Malvo, a juvenile, was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences without parole. None of the killed were children, but one of the wounded was. Their crime spree, which began in February 2002, included murders and robberies in the states of Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Texas, and Virginia and in Washington, D.C., which resulted in 7 deaths and 7 wounded in ten months, the snipers killed 17 people and wounded 10 others. The snipers were John Allen Muhammad (age 41 at the time) and Lee Boyd Malvo (age 17 at the time), who traveled in a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice sedan. Ten people were killed and three others were critically wounded in the Washington Metropolitan Area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia. sniper attacks (also known as the Beltway sniper attacks) were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October 2002 in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. 223 Remington/ 5.56×45mm NATO (preliminary shootings)
