Washington, DC, area sniper John Allen Muhammad has been sentenced to death by a jury in Virginia, press outlets reported March 9.

Muhammad and his young partner, John Lee Malvo, were captured after a trucker helped police locate them.

In the early hours of Oct. 24, 2003, Kentucky truck driver Ron Lantz was listening to the Truckin’ Bozo radio show and heard a description of a car being sought by officials in connection with the sniper case. He noticed a car that matched the description – a Chevrolet Caprice – parked at a rest stop in Maryland and called 9-1-1.

Lantz and another driver then blocked the exits to the rest area, effectively trapping the suspects until police could arrive. Muhammad and Malvo were arrested a short time later.

The two have been accused of a shooting spree that terrorized the two-state area around the nation’s capital. Ten people died in the shootings; Muhammad was convicted in one of those incidents.

Malvo, who was convicted in one of the shootings earlier, will serve a life sentence.