US Sniper Suspect Confesses to Shootings

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US Sniper Suspect Confesses to Shootings

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US sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo confessed to some shootings that terrorized the Washington area last October, a US police detective testified at a court hearing Monday in Fairfax County, Virginia State.

June Boyle, lead homicide detective for the county, said Malvo was amused that a shot just missed one target's head and laughed about a shot that killed Linda Franklin, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) analyst.

Boyle said the suspect also laughed about the shooting of a man mowing grass because afterward "the lawn mower just kept going down the street."

Malvo and fellow suspect John Allen Muhammad, 42, have been linked to 20 shootings, including 13 deaths, in Virginia, Maryland,Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Washington, D.C. Both face the death penalty.

Prosecutors said the shootings that occurred during a three-week spree in October were part of a plot to extort 10 million dollars from the government.

Malvo's defense attorneys tried to quash his confession to the shootings at the hearing. Boyle said she told 17-year-old Malvo many times that he had the right to remain silent and have an attorney present during questioning on Nov. 7.

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