Lee Boyd Malvo, who was sentenced to life in prison for his role in 10 sniper killings, including one in Ashland, has been transferred out of the state’s supermax prison.

Malvo, 39, is now an an inmate at Keen Mountain Correctional Center in Buchanan County. He had been at Red Onion State Prison in Wise County.

Malvo and John Allen Muhammad, known as the Beltway snipers, randomly gunned down people in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., for three weeks in 2002.

Malvo was convicted in 2004.

Muhammad was executed in 2009 for his role in the killings.

Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.