Editing John Allen Muhammad (section)

==D.C. sniper attacks==
{{Main|D.C. sniper attacks}}
Police followed a lead in which Muhammad or Malvo left a note at one of the shootings to tell the police to investigate a liquor store robbery-murder that had occurred in [[Montgomery, Alabama]]. Investigators responding to that crime scene found one of the suspects had dropped a magazine with his fingerprints on it; these were subsequently identified as belonging to Malvo, whose prints were on file with the [[Immigration and Naturalization Service|INS]] and who was known to associate with Muhammad. They had lived together for around a year in [[Tacoma, Washington]], where Malvo used the alias John Lee Malvo.<ref>{{cite news|last=White|first=Josh|date=September 29, 2012|title=Lee Boyd Malvo, 10 years after D.C. area sniper shootings: 'I was a monster'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/lee-boyd-malvo-10-years-after-dc-area-sniper-shootings-i-was-a-monster/2012/09/29/a1ef1b42-04d8-11e2-8102-ebee9c66e190_story.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=June 30, 2017}}</ref>

Muhammad's identification led to the discovery that he had purchased a former police car, a blue [[Chevrolet Caprice]], in [[New Jersey]] on September 11, 2002.<ref>{{cite news|last=McFadden|first=Robert|title=Retracing a Trial: the Vehicle |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/us/retracing-trail-vehicle-owner-car-linked-sniper-attacks-seized-michigan-material.html|work=The New York Times|date=October 27, 2002 |access-date=June 30, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Siegel|first=Andrea|date=May 18, 2006|title=Sniper jurors view Caprice|url=http://www.southflorida.com/bal-md.ar.sniper18may18-story.html|work=The Baltimore Sun|access-date=June 30, 2017|archive-date=September 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902092206/http://www.southflorida.com/bal-md.ar.sniper18may18-story.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> A lookout broadcast to the public on that vehicle resulted in the arrest of Muhammad and Malvo when the car was spotted parked at an [[Interstate 70]] rest stop in [[Myersville, Maryland]].<ref>{{cite news|date=October 25, 2002|title=Sniper-Spotting Trucker a Humble Hero|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/sniper-spotting-trucker-a-humble-hero/|work=[[Fox News]]|access-date=June 30, 2017}}</ref>