Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

D.C. sniper teen: 'I am so sorry'

|
|
 
  
Published: Oct. 3, 2007 at 4:52 PM

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Lee Boyd Malvo, who as a teenager participated in a nationwide killing spree, has apologized from a Virginia prison to the daughter of one victim.

The call between Malvo and Cheryll Witz was set up by an ABC News producer, the Washington Post reported. Malvo admitted last year he and John Allen Muhammad killed Jerry Taylor, who was ambushed on a golf course in Tucson.

Witz said she was in a Costco in Tucson when ABC News reached her on her cell phone. The producer had already asked her if she would speak to Malvo, who is serving a life sentence in the Red Onion Correctional Center.

"He told me he's been trying to write me but didn't know where to start," she told the Post. "He said: 'I just wanted to apologize to you. I am so sorry for what I've done.'"

Malvo, who is not related to Muhammad but regarded him as a foster father, traveled across the country with him. When the pair shot five people in a single day in the Washington area, a manhunt began.

Muhammad has been sentenced to death in Virginia.

Topics: John Allen, John Allen Muhammad, Lee Boyd Malvo
© 2007 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Notable deaths of 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee AmfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala
Indianapolis 500 Presidential Medal of Freedom Memorial Day around the nation
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 27
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler
fark
★☆☆☆☆ Michigan is an uninhabitable swamp. Do not settle
As part of the Queen's jubilee celebrations, Top Gear presenter James May has built a contraption...
New, comprehensive data on all the reasons why people break-up. Bad news for Farkers: drinking too...
There is finally a car that's more dangerous to rear-end than a Ford Pinto
Here is the full list of 2012 hurricane names. Wait... Hurricane Kirk?
Gold-plated vibrator worth $4,000 stolen from sex shop. "Au, yes ... Au, YES, YES" (with sorta-Not...