article_snippet: If a gunman suspected of randomly opening fire on five public places in Maryland over the past week is behind all the attacks, a gunman suspected of randomly opening fire on five public places in Maryland over the past week would be a case with chilling similarities to the DC Sniper attacks of 2002 when John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed ten people with gunfire from a hidden firing spot in the back of ten people blue Chevrolet sedan.
article_snippet: If the same gunman is behind all the attacks, the same gunman would be a case with chilling similarities to the DC Sniper attacks of 2002 when John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed ten people with gunfire from a hidden firing spot in the back of ten people blue Chevrolet sedan .
article_snippet: the shootings on Tuesday sparked flashbacks to 2002, when a sniper, John Allen Muhammad (left) and his 17-year-old accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo (right) terrorized the Washington, DC area in a series of seemingly random shootings .
article_snippet: Back-to-back shootings in Maryland on Tuesday sparked flashbacks to 2002, when a sniper terrorized the Washington, DC area in a series of seemingly random shootings.
article_snippet: Shooter John Allen Muhammad and John Allen Muhammad
article_snippet: 17-year-old accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo started Shooter John Allen Muhammad and his 17-year-old accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo spree in February 2002, with murders in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas and Washington State.
article_snippet: their spree was only in October though that murders in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas and Washington State became more targeted on the Virginia and Maryland areas immediately surrounding DC - earning the name the Beltway sniper attacks.
article_snippet: The attacks left DC residents afraid to leave The attacks homes for weeks, since the nature of the shootings were random, and the shooter fired from a distance and never confronted the shooter victims face to face.
highlights_snippet: In 2002, Washington DC was paralyzed with fear as 13 random victims were shot and only three survived random attacks .