Sun Staff

November 19, 2003
Excerpts from a taped interrogation by Prince William County Detective Samuel Walker with teen-age sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo in November 2002:

Malvo: "I'll talk about this, but I won't incriminate."

Walker: "I'm not asking you to incriminate anybody. ..."

Walker: "Have you decided that you want to take the blame for all of this? I mean, have you? Because if you have not decided that you want to take the blame for all of this, OK, he's already incriminated."

Malvo: "Well I don't put the blame on anyone. We both are already incriminated. I know the evidence that you found in the car. ..."

Malvo and Walker discuss the shooting of Dean H. Meyers at a gas station near Manassas, Va., on Oct. 9 of last year.

Walker: "OK, now let me ask you this question, OK, he's pumping gas, OK. Is he facing you or is his back to you or?"

Malvo: "He's in more of a diagonal, sideways."

Walker: "He's sideways?"

Malvo: "Like this, his body twisted sideways so I couldn't get a body shot. ..."

Walker: "You couldn't get a body shot, so you had to go for the head?"

Malvo nods.

Walker: "When he was hit, OK, what did he do? What happened?

Malvo: "He went down. I just saw the body started falling. I didn't stay around and watch it go down. ..."

Walker: "Obviously you guys weren't working right during that time?"

Malvo: "It was work."

Walker: "You were working?"

Malvo: "Um huh."

Walker: "How were you working? I mean other than the work that you were doing, other than the shootings."