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Ly ° During the course of the Sniper Investigation, telephone calls taking credit for the sniper shootings were placed to law enforcement officials and to a private citizen. In these calls, the caller has made mention of his specific knowledge of the Montgomery, Alabama shooting, providing the exact neighborhood of the incident, referring to it as a liquor store robbery, and emphasizing his awareness of who actually participated in the shooting. The caller also indicates that the police should conduct ballistics testing of the bullet fragments in Montgomery, Alabama. Those calls also include specific identifying contents that match phrases left at three crime scenes within the Sniper Investigation. Specifically, the call uses phrases that appear on all three messages left for law enforcement at the scenes of shootings in Bowie, Maryland, Ashland, Virginia, and Silver Spring, Maryland. Those phrases were not released to the public. Investigation into the Montgomery, Alabama shooting revealed that a suspect in that murder dropped a magazine as he fled the scene. Fingerprint-evidence recovered from this magazine, a firearms catalog, was examined by Sniper Task Force investigators and found to match known prints of Lee Boyd Malvo, an illegal immigrant who had been arrested by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Tacoma, Washington. A concerned citizen from Tacoma, Washington, contacted authorities, advising he suspected that an individual named John Muhammad, “previously known as John Williams, might be involved in the sniper homicides occurring in the Washington, D.C., area. This citizen and Muhammad had known each other for many years. ‘Muhammad had told the citizen that Muhammad's former wife was currently living in the Washington, D.C., area. The citizen further indicated that on the last three occasions (the last of which was in August or September, 2002) Muhatittiad Visited his homé in Tacoma, he was accompanied by a young male whom Muhammad referred to by the nickname "Sniper." The citizen also said Muhammad told him he had met "Sniper" in the Caribbean. Investigators have determined that Malvo was born in Jamaica. Task Force investigators showed a photograph of Malvo to the citizen, who positively identified Malvo as the young man Muhammad introduced to him as "Sniper." " As a result of the investigation into these murders John Allen WILLIAMS, aka John Allen Muhhamad and John Lee MALVO, aka Lee MALVO were ideritified as possible suspects. Their description and the description of a vehicle being operated by them were broadcast on all television newscasts as a person of interest in the above named investigation. On October 24, 2002 John Allen WILLIAMS and John Lee MALVO were