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Funeral held in La. for D.C. sniper
Posted 11/17/2009 4:52 PM ET
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Friends and relatives of executed D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad have gathered in Louisiana for his funeral.

Muhammad was put to death last week in Virginia for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during an October 2002 shooting spree. It left 10 people dead and terrorized Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., over a three-week period.

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Several dozen people attended Tuesday's funeral in Baton Rouge, Muhammad's hometown.

The funeral was closed to the news media. Family members declined to be interviewed about the service afterward.

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Posted 11/17/2009 4:52 PM ET
A state forensic van containing the body of convicted D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad leaves the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., Nov. 10. Muhammad died by injection at 9:11 p.m., prison spokesman Larry Traylor said.
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A state forensic van containing the body of convicted D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad leaves the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., Nov. 10. Muhammad died by injection at 9:11 p.m., prison spokesman Larry Traylor said.