Washington sniper claims responsibility for shootings

The Washington Post, citing a source familiar with the case, said in a story in Friday's editions that Lee Boyd Malvo told authorities about the shootings occurred before the three-week spree in October 2002 in which 13 people were shot, 10 fatally, in the Washington area.

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The Post said a second source confirmed that investigators have received information implicating Malvo and John Allen Muhammad in the four other shootings. The sources would not speak for attribution because of the sensitivity of the information, The Post reported.

Law enforcement officials interviewed Malvo extensively to prepare for his testimony at Muhammad's trial last month in Maryland.

The two most recently linked homicide victims were a man shot in Los Angeles in February or March 2002 and a man shot in the head from a distance May 27, 2002, in Denton, Texas, a Dallas suburb. The two survivors are a 76-year-old Tucson man shot May 18, 2002, at a golf course in Clearwater, Florida. and a 54-year-old Louisiana man shot during a robbery on Aug. 1, 2002, after leaving a shopping mall in a suburb of Baton Rouge, The Post reported.

Malvo's attorneys, William Brennan and Timothy J. Sullivan, would not comment on the information Malvo gave to law enforcers in recent months. "We are fully aware of the universe of Mr. Malvo's potential criminal problems," they said in a statement to The Post on Thursday. "We have received several inquiries from other jurisdictions concerning possible investigations."