He is serving multiple life sentences at Keen Mountain Correctional Center in Virginia, a maximum security (level 4) prison.
[1][2] The D.C. sniper attacks were the last in a series of shootings across the United States connected to Muhammad and Malvo which began on the West Coast.
[5][9] Malvo arrived illegally in Miami in 2001, and in December of that year, he and his mother were apprehended by the Border Patrol in Bellingham, Washington.
[3] During the trial, Cooley said that violent video games had contributed significantly to Malvo's state of mind and his willingness to commit murder.
"[citation needed] Sociologists Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl K. Olson, however, argue in their book Grand Theft Childhood[15] that other factors were much more significant.
"In court, Lee Malvo admitted that he trained by shooting a real gun at paper plates that represented human heads.
[citation needed] One Virginia prosecutor in Prince William County had stated he would wait to decide whether to try Malvo on additional capital charges in his jurisdiction until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on whether juveniles may be subject to execution.
In light of the March 1, 2005, Supreme Court decision in Roper v. Simmons that the Eighth Amendment prohibits execution for crimes committed when under age 18, the prosecutors in Prince William County decided not to pursue the charges against Malvo.
At the outset of the Beltway sniper prosecutions, the primary reason for extraditing the two suspects from Maryland, where they were arrested, to Virginia was the differences in how the two states deal with the death penalty.
Tucson detectives interviewed Malvo about Taylor, who died from a single gunshot fired at long range but did not disclose their findings.
[20] In 2003, Malvo and Muhammad were named in a major civil lawsuit by the Legal Action Project of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence on behalf of two of their victims who were seriously wounded and the families of some of those murdered.
Co-defendants Bull's Eye Shooter Supply and Bushmaster Firearms contributed to a landmark $2.5 million out-of-court settlement in late 2004.
[21] In Muhammad's May 2006 trial in Montgomery County, Maryland, Malvo took the stand and confessed to a more detailed version of the pair's plans.
Part of his testimony concerned Muhammad's complete plan, which consisted of three phases in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore metro areas.
Malvo went on to describe how Phase One did not go as planned due to heavy traffic and the lack of a clear shot and/or getaway at different locations.
This money would be used to finance a larger plan to travel north into Canada and recruit other effectively orphaned boys to use weapons and stealth and send them out to commit shootings across the country.
[27] Malvo was relocated from the supermax Red Onion State Prison to the slightly lower security Keen Mountain Correctional Center around June 2024.