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Man Won't Forgive Daughter's Killer

Gainesville Man's Daughter Killed By DC Sniper In 2002 In Virginia

POSTED: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
UPDATED: 10:36 pm EST November 11, 2009

A Gainesville man whose daughter was murdered by one of the DC snipers in 2002 said he still feels no closure.

One of the snipers, John Allen Muhammad, 48, was put to death Tuesday by lethal injection.

The man Muhammad trained, Lee Boyd Malvo, shot and killed Linda Franklin, an FBI agent, in a store parking lot in Virginia in 2002.

Malvo is serving life in prison.

But even with punishment handed out, Franklin's father, Charles Moore, said he will never forget and never forgive. He said the crime still terrorizes him, and he thinks about it almost every day.

Lee Boyd Malvo
Lee Boyd Malvo, one of the DC snipers, shot and killed Linda Franklin in 2002.
"Two hours before she was killed I talked to her on the phone, asked her not to go out," Moore said.

Moore said he never thought his daughter would die, but he worried about her.

She lived in the Washington D.C. area seven years ago at the same time people were being shot and killed during a three-state sniper murder spree.

"Front doorbell chime sounded. It was the FBI telling me that she had been killed," Moore said. "I didn't believe them because I knew I had just talked to her. They couldn't show me a picture because there wasn't anything fit to show. The bullet hit her in the back of the head and tore her face completely off of her."

Franklin was shot while standing in a Home Depot parking lot with her husband.

"Malvo is the one that shot my daughter, and he was without remorse during the trial, I was there," Moore said.

Moore said he's upset Malvo wasn't sentenced to death. But Malvo couldn't be because he was only 17 at the time of the shootings.

"I think the punishment should fit the crime," Moore said. "They should've died both together. As far as forgiving him, I never will. If that sends me to hell, I'll go to hell."

The FBI dedicated one of its classrooms at its headquarters in Virginia in honor of Franklin. Moore was flown up to Virginia a year after his daughter's death, where he was presented with a black and white photo of his daughter.
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