Teenager may have murderd FBI analyst

The 17-year-old suspect in the Washington sniper murders may have fired the shot that killed an FBI analyst, it emerged today, raising the possibility that the death penalty could be brought against both suspects.

Virginia prosecutor Robert Horan said there is “an equal possibility” that either John Allen Muhammad, 41, or John Lee Malvo, 17, shot FBI analyst Linda Franklin at a Fairfax shopping centre on October 14.