The first trials, convictions and sentencings of the two men charged as the infamous "Beltway Snipers" are now part of history. John Allen Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo will face additional capital murder charges in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC, for the deaths of 10 men and women and the wounding of a school child and two adults along the I-95 corridor between Montgomery County, Maryland, and Hanover County, Virginia, during a 20-day reign of terror in October 2002. As a superintendent of a county school system where one of the fatal shootings occurred on October 19, the author, like those of other superintendents nearby, became consumed by 24/7 decision making about immediate school and community security concerns. That decision making, while reliant upon state and local law enforcement partners, superintendent colleagues and key staff, was scrutinized by constituents and by others across the nation. His role as a community leader could not have been on more vivid display.