A man has been found guilty of two capital murder counts in one of ten sniper-style killings in the Washington, DC, area in October 2002.
John Muhammad, a 42-year-old Gulf War veteran, could now face the death penalty or life in prison without parole.
The jury at the Virginia Beach Circuit Court reached its verdict after six hours of deliberations.
He was convicted on all charges in the death of Dean Meyers, who was killed October 9th, 2002, outside Manassas, Virginia. He was found guilty of two counts of capital murder, one of conspiracy and one of using a firearm in commission of a felony.
One of the murder counts alleges Muhammad committed multiple murders, including Meyers plus one other person within a three-year period. The other murder charge alleges Muhammad committed murder as an act of terrorism, a violation of Virginia's new anti-terror law, enacted after the September 11th, 2001, attacks.
Meanwhile, in neighboring Chesapeake, Virginia, the murder trial of Muhammad's alleged accomplice, 18-year-old Lee Malvo, is under way.
Prosecutors have portrayed Muhammad as a controlling, cold-blooded killer who molded Malvo into an expert sniper and then worked with him to create a climate of fear that stretched along the US Eastern Seaboard.
Both trials were moved some 200 miles southeast of Washington's Virginia suburbs in search of unbiased juries.