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10,127 murders reported in District of Columbia from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 40%. Explore the statistics →

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  D.C. sniper attacks

  2002 · Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
  SpreeConvicted11 victims

  Over three weeks in October 2002, John Allen Muhammad, 41, and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17, shot people at random from a modified Chevrolet Caprice in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., killing ten and wounding three.