OAKWOOD, Va. — More than 20 years after the DC sniper attacks claimed the lives of 10 people, one of the people responsible has been transferred out of Red Onion State Prison, Virginia's first supermax prison facility.
Lee Boyd Malvo was 17 years old when he was arrested alongside John Allen Muhammad. The pair terrorized the D.C. area for weeks in 2002.
“Every time there was another shooting, it was a really sick, unexplainable feeling, really,” said retired Supervisory Special Agent April Carroll in a 2022 interview with WUSA. “It was just 'oh my God we have to catch these guys. We can't have more killings and shootings.'”
Ultimately, Malvo and Muhammad shot 16 people, 10 of whom died from their injuries. Both were captured in Maryland in October 2002.
According to reporting from WTOP, Malvo has been held at the Red Onion State Prison for more than 20 years. Now, at 39 years old, the Virginia Department of Corrections website shows Malvo will be transfered to Keen Mountain Correctional Center in Oakwood. The Keen Mountain Correctional Center is a maximum seciruty prison, unlike Red Onion's supermax status. The transfer comes two years after Malvo was denied parole.
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