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Malvo pleads guilty to Md. sniper killings

ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Lee Boyd Malvo, the teenager who joined John Allen Muhammad in a Washington-area killing spree, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Maryland to six counts of murder.

Malvo, now 21, faces consecutive life sentences, the Baltimore Sun reported. He is already serving multiple life sentences in Virginia.

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William Brennan, a member of Malvo's defense team, said he and other lawyers hope to negotiate guilty pleas for other shootings his client is charged with. Malvo and Muhammad allegedly shot people in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Arizona and Washington State before they were arrested in 2002.

Malvo, a Jamaican immigrant, says that Muhammad, his foster father, turned him into a killer. In the Washington area, they picked off their victims at random, firing from a distance like military snipers.

Muhammad is on death row in Virginia.

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