engineer, is the ninth victim, shot in the chest and killed while pumping gas near manassas, virginia. he was 53 years old. in a parking lot across from the crime scene a police officer interviews potential witnesses. one of them is a man driving the same 12-year-old chevy caprice that had been spotted near the sixth murder scene. when police wave him on, they have no idea they ve just interviewed the sniper mastermind. john allen mohammed, and lee boyd malveaux were an unlikely pair, joined by unlikely circumstances. mohammed, age 41, was definitely the alpha. his devoted follower and more than willing accomplice malvo was just 17. one of the things that struck me was his devotion and commitment to john allen
all we know about muhammad s approach to the shootings is largely what other people have theorized, because muhammad never really explained why it happened. there are theories that he was randomly shooting people in that area so that perhaps he could kill his ex-wife and then swoop in as the grieving ex-husband and take the children away and disappear. if he wanted to kill her, he could have killed her randomly, so i don t think that had anything to do with it. i was fearful for my life, but i never ever thought that he would go to this length, never. ever. it still boggles my mind. yet it made sense to you? because we were watching a movie and i don t remember the name of it, but it said i can take a small city and terrorize it, and they would think it is a group of people, and it would only be me. at 9:06 p.m. on november
mohammed, who he referred to as dad. mohammed, a father of three, was an ex-armyening mere who received the normal training in marksmanship. he saw action in the first gulf war, but returned home a changed man. desert storm, the first iraq war, flipped a switch in john mohammed. to this day his ex-wife isn t sure what happened. it was like his spirit had been broken. he looked like just a broken man. reporter: that s the man who befriended lee malvo in 2000. mohammed met the teen while on a trip to antigua where malvo s mother had all but abandoned him. mohammed eventually brought malvo to tacoma, washington, as his informally adopted son. his true personality i think is a soft, warm, loving child. it is very, very important that one recognize that lee did not
started falling into place. the tipster said the two practiced shooting ate tree stump in his backyard. atf and fbi immediately sent field agents to retrieve the stump. we asked our people to do it low key, keep it very quiet, don t tell anybody. about an hour later someone came into the chief s office and said take a look on tv. agents from the fbi and atf have just finished up their search. the helicopters and the news media were out there watching our people, and this backyard in tacoma, washington. an arrest warrant has been issued for john allen mohammed, also known as john allen williams. it came around 1:00 a.m. in a rest stop outside frederick, maryland, about 50 miles northwest of washington. a motorist who heard the police lookout just over an hour earlier spotted the blue 1990 chevrolet caprice with two men sleeping inside. it was a six-person assault element. we had three on the driver s side, three on the passenger
say heart be still. heart be still. after a while he didn t have to tell him heart be still because he had, if i could use the word, monsterized him. no one ever linked mohammed and malvo to the girl s murder. now eight months later they re driving around the nation s capital in an old chevy caprice shooting innocent citizens while everyone is looking for a white man in a white truck. law enforcement move that shooters had a distinct advantage. i think to them it was quite frustrating. they all knew more people were going to die. we just received word of another shooting. you know you just have to keep plowing through. in the parking lot. you just cannot throw your hands up and walk away and say, well, this is too hard. you knew that as fast as they