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1983 Oct 15 |
One US marine was killed and another wounded when Marine positions at Beirut International Airport came under sniper fire from neighboring Shiite Moslem quarters. Links: USA, Lebanon, Sniper 
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1999 Jan 4 |
A sniper hit at least 4 vehicles on I-80 between Reno and the California border. Police arrested Christopher Lee Merritt (20) of Mankato, Minn., who hoped to rob the drivers after they crashed. Merritt pleaded guilty in 1999 and was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison in 2000. Links: Minnesota, Nevada, Sniper
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2001 May 18 |
In Israel a suicide bomber killed 7 others and wounded over 100 women and children at a shopping mall in Netanya. Israeli F-16 jets retaliated and killed at 10 Palestinian security personnel in 3 Palestinian cities. Near the Neve Tzuf Jewish settlement Yair Nebentzal (22) was killed by sniper fire. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide, Sniper
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2002 Oct 2 |
James Martin (55) was shot to death by a sniper in Wheaton, Md. He was the 1st to die at the hands of a local serial killer. The next day, five people in the Washington D.C. area were shot dead, setting off a frantic manhunt. John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were later arrested for 10 killings and three woundings; Muhammad has been sentenced to death, Malvo to life in prison. Links: USA, Maryland, Murder, DC, Sniper
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2002 Oct 3 |
Police hunted for a "skilled shooter" who murdered five random victims over 16 hours with a high-powered rifle in Montgomery County, Maryland, just a short distance from Washington DC. A 6th victim was killed in DC. James Buchanon (39), Premkumar Walekar (54), Sarah Ramos (34), Lori Ann Lewis Rivera (25) and Pascal Charlot (72) became the 2nd to 6th victims. Links: USA, Maryland, DC, Sniper
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2002 Oct 7 |
In Bowie, Md., a 13-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded by a sniper at Benjamin Tasker Middle School. The shooting was linked to 6 previous killings and a card was found nearby that said: "I am God." Links: Maryland, God, Mad Man, Sniper
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2002 Oct 9 |
Dean Meyers (53) of Gaithersburg, Md., was shot to death in Manassas, Va., in a shooting that appeared to be linked to 6 previous sniper attacks in the area. In 2009 sniper John Allen Muhammad (48) was executed in Virginia for the killing of Meyers. Links: USA, Virginia, Maryland, Murder, Sniper
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2002 Oct 19 |
In Ashland, Va., Jeffrey Hopper (37) was shot and seriously wounded in what appeared to be another sniper attack. The sniper left a note that included a request for $10 million and threats to focus on children. Links: USA, Virginia, Sniper
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2002 Oct 22 |
In Aspen Hill, Maryland, Conrad Everton Johnson (35), a bus driver, was shot in the chest and died during surgery. The shooting was suspected to be related to the serial sniper who already killed nine people this month. This was the 13th and final attack linked by authorities to the Washington-area sniper attacks. Links: Maryland, Sniper
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2002 Oct 24 |
John Allen Muhammad (41), an Army veteran who recently converted to Islam, and John Lee Malvo (17) were arrested near Frederick, Maryland, in connection with the sniper shootings that left 10 dead and 3 wounded. In 2003 a judge ruled that Malvo could be tried as an adult. Muhammad began to argue his own defense on Oct 20. On Mar 9, 2004, John Allen Muhammad was sentenced to death. In 2006 Malvo was sentenced to life in prison for 6 murders in Maryland. Links: USA, Maryland, Murder, Sniper
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2002 Oct 29 |
The federal government filed charges against Washington sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad under a 1946 extortion law that could bring the death penalty, accusing him of a murderous plot to get $10 million. Links: USA, DC, Sniper
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2002 Oct 31 |
Authorities charged the two Washington sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo with murder in a Louisiana attack that came just two days after a similar slaying in Alabama. Links: USA, Virginia, Alabama, DC, Sniper
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2003 Mar 7 |
In Bulgaria Ilya Pavlov, owner of the energy and tourism-related company Multigroup and Bulgaria's richest man, was killed by a sniper in Sofia. Pavlov, a former wrestler, was instrumental in the demise of the Kremikovtzi steel plant. Links: Bulgaria, Murder, Sniper
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2003 Oct 14 |
John Allen Muhammad pleaded innocent to murder as the first trial in the deadly Washington-area sniper rampage got under way in Virginia Beach, Va. Muhammad was later convicted and sentenced to death for killing Dean Harold Meyers. Links: USA, Virginia, DC, Sniper
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2003 Nov 17 |
John Allen Muhammad was convicted of two counts of capital murder and masterminding the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington DC region. Links: USA, Murder, DC, Sniper
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2003 Nov 24 |
A Virginia jury decided that John Allen Muhammad, convicted of masterminding the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington DC region, should be executed. Links: USA, Virginia, DC, Sniper
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2003 Dec 18 |
Lee Boyd Malvo (18) was convicted in Virginia for his role in the 2002 sniper shootings. Links: USA, Virginia, Sniper
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2003 Dec 23 |
A Virginia jury recommended a sentence of life in prison for Lee Boyd Malvo. Links: USA, Virginia, Sniper
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2004 Mar 9 |
John Allen Muhammad (43) was sentenced to death in Manassas, Va., for his 2002 murder rampage in the Washington DC area. Links: Virginia, DC, Sniper
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2004 Mar 10 |
Lee Boyd Malvo, teenage sniper, was sentenced in Chesapeake, Va., to life in prison. Links: USA, Virginia, Sniper
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2006 May 30 |
John Allen Muhammad was convicted of 6 Maryland sniper killings. He was already condemned to death in Virginia for his 2002 murder spree. On June 1 he was sentenced to 6 consecutive life terms without parole. Links: USA, Virginia, Maryland, Sniper
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2006 Jul 23 |
In southern Indiana 2 sets of sniper attacks within hours of each other left one man dead, another wounded and four vehicles peppered with bullet holes. On July 25 police said a Gaston youth (18) confessed to weekend sniping. Links: USA, Indiana, Sniper, Teens Amuck
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2006 Aug 20 |
Snipers firing from rooftops and a cemetery killed 20 people and wounded dozens in a series of attacks on a Shiite religious procession that drew hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to Baghdad. The "terrorist assaults" took place when the pilgrims were walking through Sunni areas on their way to the shrine of Imam Moussa Kadhim. 2 US Marines and a sailor were killed in the western province of Anbar. Links: Iraq, USA, Sniper
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2006 Dec 8 |
In Chicago a man carrying a cache of weapons into the Citigroup Center chained a law firm's doors closed and fatally shot three people before a police sniper killed him as he held a hostage at gunpoint. Authorities said Joe Jackson (59) felt cheated over an invention. Links: USA, Chicago, Mad Man, Sniper
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2007 Mar 27 |
In Kiev, Ukraine, a Russian businessman allied with Ukraine's president was killed by a sniper as he was escorted from a courthouse during a break in his extortion trial. Links: Russia, Ukraine, Sniper
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2007 Apr 9 |
Tens of thousands draped themselves in Iraqi flags and marched peacefully through the streets from Kufa to Najaf to mark the fourth anniversary of Baghdad's fall. Demonstrators were flanked by two cordons of police as they called for US forces to leave, shouting "Get out, get out occupier!" In southern Baghdad, a sniper killed a civilian and a policeman, and a mortar round killed one person and wounded two others. A total of 25 people were killed or found dead across Iraq. 4 US soldiers were killed, 3 by a roadside bomb and a secondary explosion in southeastern Baghdad and another in combat in western Anbar province. Links: Iraq, USA, Sniper
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2007 May 11 |
Iraq's Kurdish president said his country may need American troops for one or two more years. US-led forces targeting car bombing networks across Iraq killed four suspected insurgents and detained nine others in a series of raids. Two suicide car bombers struck police checkpoints near bridges in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people. Near Iskandariyah US snipers killed Genei Nasir al-Janabi in an effort to hide their presence. On June 30 Staff Sgt. Michael A. Hensley from Candler, N.C., and Spc. Jorge G. Sandoval from Laredo, Texas, were charged with the premeditated murder of three Iraqis. A 3rd soldier Sgt. Evan Vela, of Phoenix, Idaho, was similarly charged the next day. In 2008 Sgt. Vela was found guilty on all charges. Links: Iraq, USA, Suicide, Murder, Kurds, Sniper
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2007 May 22 |
A car bomb exploded at an outdoor market in a Shiite area of Baghdad, killing 25 people and wounding at least 60. Gunmen in two cars drove through the nearby Khadra neighborhood and ambushed a civilian car carrying three plainclothes police from the major crimes unit, killing two and wounding the third. A police officer was killed when a roadside bomb exploded next to a police patrol driving through eastern Baghdad. Gunmen disguised as soldiers set up a fake checkpoint and stopped a minibus bringing college students to the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City. The militants killed 8 of the students and wounded three others. At another fake checkpoint near Baqouba gunmen killed six people from one family, a woman, her 5-year-old son and four men and stole their car. 2 mortar shells slammed into a teacher's college affiliated with Baghdad University, killing three students and injuring seven. In the Baghdad neighborhood of Dora, a sniper shot two civilians, killing one and wounding the other. At least 100 Iraqis were killed or found dead nationwide. They included 33 people found shot execution-style, presumably by sectarian death squads, and their bodies scattered across Baghdad. US soldiers and two Marines were killed in separate attacks. A US soldiers was killed in a roadside bomb attack near Tikrit. Links: Iraq, USA, Sniper
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2007 Aug 27 |
A sniper killed a Shiite pilgrim on a Baghdad bridge while another was killed and six injured in other attacks as tens of thousands of faithful made their way to the southern city of Karbala for a major religious commemoration. At least five people were killed in Karbala as scuffles broke out between police and pilgrims. North of Baghdad hundreds of US and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters and jet fighters killed 33 Sunni insurgents who were holding back the water supply to the Shiite town of Khalis. In Fallujah a mosque suicide bombing left 11 dead and 10 people were wounded in an attack that targeted an anti-al-Qaida Sunni sheik who had just returned from Syria. Links: Iraq, USA, Sniper
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2007 Sep 29 |
Three Iraqi soldiers and three civilians, killed in a suicide truck bombing near Mosul, were among 18 victims of sectarian violence across Iraq. Army sniper Spc. Jorge G. Sandoval (22) was sentenced to five months in prison, a reduction in rank and forfeiture of pay for planting evidence in connection with the deaths of two Iraqi civilians. 3 Sunni clerics were killed in Mosul. US aircraft killed more than 20 al-Qaida in Iraq fighters who opened fire on an American air patrol northwest of Baghdad. Links: Iraq, USA, Sniper
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2010 May 13 |
In Thailand Maj. Gen. Khattiya Sawasdiphol, a renegade army officer accused of marshaling a paramilitary force among the Red Shirt protesters, was shot in the head, apparently by a sniper, and taken to a hospital. Links: Thailand, Sniper
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