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DC sniper Malvo gets second life sentence

SPOTSYLVANIA, Va., Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Washington sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, who pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder, was sentenced Tuesday to two terms of life in prison without parole.

CNN reported that Malvo, a Jamaican, was charged with killing Kenneth Bridges, who had been standing outside a gas station in Fredericksburg, Va., and with attempting to kill Caroline Seawell who had been standing outside a Virginia arts and crafts store. By pleading guilty, Malvo avoided the death penalty, the Washington Post reported.

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Malvo is currently serving a life sentence without parole for the murder of FBI analyst Linda Franklin who was killed in the parking lot of a Virginia Home Depot.

The three shooting victims were among 10 people killed, and three wounded, in Washington, Virginia and Maryland by a sniper in the fall of 2002.

In his first trial, Malvo admitted taking part in the shootings, but his lawyers said he had been brainwashed by accomplice John Allen Muhammad.

Muhammad has been sentenced in Virginia to the death penalty.

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