Prosecutors say that when Yonathan Melaku was arrested at Arlington National Cemetery, he planned to spraypaint grave markers at the cemetery.
An ex-Marine accused of firing shots at the Pentagon and Marine Corps museum at Quantico has pleaded guilty to unrelated larceny charges and been sentenced to six months in jail.
Melaku, 22, a Marine Corps reserve lance corporal, as charged Thursday with destruction of U.S. property and use of a firearm in connection with the shootings.
First on insidenova.com: Sources say forensic evidence links Marine reservist Yonathan Melaku to last fall’s military shootings around Northern Virginia.
Though no one was harmed, five separate overnight shootings left Quantico Marine Corps base at the center of a military investigation.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the military shooter responsible for shots fired at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, a U.S. Coast Guard recruiting facility in Woodbridge, the Pentagon and at a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting facility in Chantilly.
The ballistics match in Tuesday's overnight shooting at a U.S. Coast Guard recruiting office near Potomac Mills Mall – linking one gunman to five military shootings since mid-October.
Police and the FBI descend on Potomac Mills after a fifth military shooting in just over two weeks.
The FBI says shooter is likely a former or active duty Marine with a beef against the Corps.
The shooting at a Chantilly recruiting center is related to the shootings at the National Museum of the Marine Corps and the Pentagon, the FBI said Thursday.
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