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“were allowed to hold hands,” but

she would not say whether they

were allowed to kiss or have any

further contact.

“I believe the institution was

very accommodating,” Albarus

said.

The Virginia Department of

Corrections declined to confirm

the nuptials, saying such events

are part of an inmate’s personal

record and not subject to manda-

tory disclosure. An inmate who

witnessed the ceremony in Red

onion’s contact visit area said it

occurred Friday over an approxi-

mately two-hour visit.

Craig s. Cooley, one of Malvo’s

original trial attorneys, who has

continued to represent Malvo in

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ers after they have served

20 years, but if Malvo, now 35,

were paroled from Virginia, he

would then have to begin serving

his Maryland sentences.

Carmeta Albarus, who helped

Malvo’s defense team in 2003

break the psychological grip Mu-

hammad had exerted over the

teenager, said Tuesday that she

was a witness to the marriage. “I

was honored to be there,” Albarus

said. “It was a beautiful occasion,

given the circumstances of where

it took place.”

Albarus declined to provide

any specifics about the ceremony

or any information about the

bride. “she’s an absolutely won-

derful individual,” Albarus said.

she said the bride and groom

BY TOM JACKMAN

Lee Boyd Malvo, half of a

two-man sniper team that terror-

ized the Washington region and

killed 10 people in october 2002,

was married last week in a cere-

mony at Red onion state Prison

in Virginia, two people close to

Malvo confirmed Tuesday. They

did not identify the woman.

Malvo, who was 17 when he

committed the crimes, was ar-

rested with John Allen Muham-

mad and ultimately convicted of

two murders in Virginia and six

murders in Maryland. He was

given life sentences without pa-

role in all eight cases. Virginia

recently changed its rules to con-

sider parole for juvenile offend-

Sniper Malvo is married in prison

BY SYDNEY TRENT

The longtime friends were

looking forward to their regular

game of bridge at Washington’s

posh Metropolitan Club on Mon-

day afternoon, a bit of welcome

routine in a world slowly spinning

out of control.

The three prominent lawyers,

C. Boyden Gray, William nitze

and edwin D. Williamson, were

well aware that the novel corona-

virus was spreading, and that it

had just made an appearance in

Maryland with the announce-

ment of the state’s first three cases

last week. They never imagined,

however, that the District’s first

confirmed case of covid-19 would

arrive at their doorstep: the 203-

year-old Christ Church George-

town, an affluent episcopal con-

gregation co-founded by Francis

scott Key and attended by a bipar-

tisan collection of well-known

Washingtonians, among them

Fox news host Tucker Carlson.

on sunday morning, the

emails from the church arrived

bearing the news that the Rev.

Timothy Cole, 59, its beloved and

affable rector, had fallen ill and

been hospitalized and that servic-

es would be canceled for the fore-

seeable future.

Then on Monday, D.C. Mayor

Muriel e. Bowser (D) issued a

public health advisory aimed at

the church, urging the more than

500 worshipers who may have

encountered Cole as he presided

over services March 1 and at o ther

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For churchgoers, self-quarantine viewed as d uty

serves as the D.C. youth organizer

for Global Climate strike, the

environmental activist

organization.

every Friday for the past 58

weeks, he has stood in front of

the White House with his “school

strike For Climate” s ign in

protest of the nation’s inadequate

response to climate change.

“Right now, I’m just trying to

find the right message, figure out

what resonates with people,”

Foster said. “Too many of us still

don’t seem to understand the

scale, scope and speed of the

changes that the climate crisis is

causing.”

Foster lives in Ward 7. His

father, Jerome Foster sr., is a

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climate change with my family,”

said Foster, a high school senior

who lives in southeast

Washington. “I’d look around at

them and say, ‘Hey, are you guys

hearing this? shouldn’t we be

doing something?’ ”

Two years later, he was

attending earth Day workshops

on climate change with his

parents.

I met Foster at a recent

Audubon naturalist society

conference in Chevy Chase,

where he was being honored as

the organization’s Youth

environmental C hampion. He

founded an international online

publication, the Climate

Reporter, with young journalists

from eight countries. He also

At age 17, Jerome

Foster II

represents the

new generation of

climate activists —

the ones who have

come of age in the

shadow of a

growing

catastrophe called climate

change.

It has been a motivator — and

also a little unnerving — being

raised on news of ever-worsening

wildfires, floods and storms. His

generation knows just how dire

the situation is, and unlike so

many of us, they are taking

action.

“I remember being 5 years old,

watching a documentary about

Teen climate activist wants us to listen

courtland

Milloy

BY DARRAN SIMON

With a hot meal in their stomachs, the men

gathered for nightly chapel service, where the

Rev. Ron stanley told them about the home-

less shelter rules — and the coronavirus.

stanley, a leader in the men’s ministry at

Central Union Mission in the District, began

what will become regular health briefings

with the men at the shelter early this week.

The Centers for Disease Control and Pre-

vention was monitoring the spread of the

virus, he said. He e ncouraged the men to wash

their hands with soap and water for at least

20 seconds several times a day, and to use the

hand sanitizer that was spread throughout

the building in dispensers and small bottles.

“I’m certain that they’re aware of what’s

going on with the coronavirus. It’s going to

take a minute. Probably by Friday, it will be

pretty well ingrained,” stanley said Monday.

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D.C. homeless services ramp up sanitation, education efforts for at-risk population

An ‘extra measure of vigilance’

Photos by Jahi Chikwendiu/the washington Post

toP: volunteer

Croswell reid

disinfects a railing

at Central union

mission. above:

the rev. ron

stanley gives a

health briefing at

the shelter monday.

BY NICK ANDERSON

The University of Maryland

announced Tuesday it will con-

vert all courses on its College Park

campus to remote instruction for

at least two weeks after spring

break, part of a growing move-

ment to suspend in-person teach-

ing on college campuses to slow

the spread of the coronavirus in

the Washington region and na-

tionwide.

U-Md. also told students their

break will last two weeks, twice as

long as normal, while faculty gear

up for the online transition. Col-

lege Park’s spring courses will

resume online March 30 and

continue in that mode until at

least April 10, the university said.

Classes at the 41,000-student

school will not convene in person

during that time.

“These temporary measures

will be inconvenient, even disrup-

tive,” U-Md. President Wallace D.

Loh said in a statement. “We will

all have to operate in a different

learning and working environ-

ment.” Loh said the university is

canceling an event known as

Maryland Day 2020. A decision

on spring commencement sched-

uled for May, he said, “is pend-

ing.”

The announcement from the

state flagship came as Maryland’s

public university system and pri-

vate universities in the region,

including American University

and Johns Hopkins University,

are taking extraordinary steps to

halt face-to-face teaching and

learning, at least temporarily,

while the spring semester moves

toward a close.

The actions echoed similar

steps colleges and universities

are taking throughout the coun-

try in response to the public

health emergency. officials want

to minimize chances the virus

could travel through lecture halls

and other student-packed ven-

ues.

For more than 170,000 stu-

dents in the University system of

Maryland, which includes the

flagship, the return to school-

work after spring break, which

starts saturday, is likely to be

unusual. system Chancellor Jay

A. Perman said in a statement he

wants to keep students and em-

ployees safe.

“Therefore, I strongly urge ev-

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Colleges

prepare

for online

instruction

U-Md. flagship and

American extend breaks

in advance of transition

“We will all have to

operate in a different

learning and working

environment.”

u-Md. President Wallace d. loh

Community visitor diagnosed

officials said student volunteers at

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BY JENNA PORTNOY,

FENIT NIRAPPIL

AND ANTONIO OLIVO

six new coronavirus cases were

announced in Maryland and Vir-

ginia o n Tuesday, a nd o fficials said

several universities in the region

will temporarily halt in-person

classes i n an effort t o stop the v irus

from spreading.

Twenty-two coronavirus cases

have now been reported in the

region.

Loudoun County officials said a

man in his 40s who tested positive

had attended Christ Church in

Georgetown, where both the rec-

tor and the organist also were

diagnosed with the virus. T he man

is in g ood condition, officials said.

In Virginia Beach, the city

health department said a man in

his 60s and a woman in her 50s

had contracted the virus while

traveling on the same nile River

cruise line that has been linked to

multiple other cases. Both are iso-

lated and i n stable c ondition.

A woman in Montgomery

County who had traveled on the

nile River cruise line also was

found to have the virus Tuesday,

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R)

said. A Prince George’s County

couple who t ook a cruise with t hat

company have tested positive for

the v irus, as well.

Prince George’s County execu-

tive Angela D. Alsobrooks said an-

other county resident in her 50s,

who tested positive for the virus

Monday, a ppears to have c ontract-

ed the virus while on a trip to

Boston from Feb. 22 to Feb. 2 7.

Prince George’s officials de-

clined to say if the woman was

attending a conference in Boston

that has been linked to dozens of

other coronavirus cases. All three

Prince George’s patients are self-

quarantined at home and in good

condition.

Alsobrooks (D) spoke at the

county emergency operations cen-

ter i n front of a giant digital map of

the nation with a ticker of global

coronavirus cases that, during the

news conference, read: 1 16,152.

“This is a virus, a nd we expect it

to spread,” she said. “We believe

the public has a role in helping us

to prevent it from spreading. Vi-

ruses spread, the flu spreads. But

we have the power in our commu-

nity t o keep it from s preading.”

officials urged people who feel

sick to stay home from work and

school and repeated instructions

for good hygiene, including thor-

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6 more

cases of

virus in

Md., Va.

22 infections

reported in region

Focus is expected to turn

to mitigation of outbreak