CENTREVILLE, Va. (Dec. 22) - Evidence in the Washington-area sniper shootings case points to teenager John Lee Malvo as the triggerman in most if not all of the shootings, according to a published report Sunday.

That could complicate prosecutors' efforts to get a death sentence for the older suspect, John Muhammad.

''There is not much pointing to Muhammad, and that is going to make it really hard to show that he was the triggerman,'' one senior law enforcement official involved in the case told The New York Times. ''There are other ways to attempt to obtain a death sentence, but this lack of evidence has been one of the most perplexing things about the case.''

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