London Shooting Case Studies

In October, 2002, ten people were killed and three were seriously injured in a period of three weeks in a region surrounding the metropolitan area of Baltimore- Washington metropolitan area. The victims were randomly shoot doing everyday jobs like pumping gas, cutting grass or reading a book. After a series of investigations, John Allen Muhammad, 41, and Lee Boyd Malvo,17, were arrested and convicted for these crimes. They were found asleep in a car in a rest area. The first crimes committed by this two individuals took place in October 2, 2002 in Aspen Hill at 5:30 PM in a Michael's Craft Store. One of the victims was shot through a window of the store. After one later, another shooting took place in parking lot of a Shoppers Food Warehouse grocery store in Glenmont. There, a fifty-year old man was shot and killed. The next day, five more murders took place, four people were killed in the area of Maryland and one person in D.C. Then, on October 7, a woman was injured while unloading her van.

After these first murders, fear started to spread throughout the community surrounding the …show more content…
Fingerprinting is a very relevant tool that gives assurance to the identification of an individual because the patterns analyzed are individual and unique characteristics of a person. Through ballistic analysis, class characteristics can be analysis. Even though it does not provide specific information about a suspect, it can be used to discard other suspects. These methods of identification indicated that Malvo and Muhammad were guilty of the several murders and was very important to come to a conclusion and dictate the sentence. It is important for the judges and jury to have relevant and crucial evidence that helped them decide about the future of two individuals. The decision also help prevent future murders that these individuals were planning to