Washington sniper suspect John Muhammad gave up trying to be his own lawyer and put his fate back in the hands of his court-appointed lawyers, after two days of courtroom fumbling.

A US grand jury has indicted 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo on two counts of capital murder in last year’s sniper shootings, setting the stage for a death penalty trial.

A judge has said 17-year-old sniper suspect John Lee Malvo can be tried as an adult, making him eligible for the death penalty.

US PROSECUTORS looking to bring a death penalty case against 17-year-old sniper suspect John Lee Malvo said fingerprints on the murder weapon and other evidence link him to three slayings and a fourth attack that left a man critically wounded.

Prosecutors seeking a death penalty case against 17-year-old sniper suspect John Lee Malvo said fingerprints on the murder weapon and other evidence linked him to three of the killings and a fourth attack that critically wounded a man.

A judge today banned TV cameras from the trial of accused Washington sniper Allen Muhammad, saying such coverage could compromise the right to a fair trial.

LOOKING unshaven and unkempt, Washington sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad made his first appearance in a Virginia state court yesterday, a state second only to Texas in executions of adults and juveniles.

Two men have been charged in the rash of recent sniper shootings in the US as authorities on the West Coast said they were also suspects in the killing of a woman last winter and a shooting at a synagogue.

HIGH-OCTANE fear stalked the Washington area in the US yesterday after a man was shot dead at a Fredericksburg petrol station just 30 miles from where a sniper claimed his seventh victim on Wednesday night.

The death toll from the Washington sniper rose to seven as ballistics evidence linked the killer to a man gunned down at a Virginia petrol station.