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CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN
Discussion with John Malvo's Half Brother
Aired October 25, 2002 - 10:37 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Back now to our continuing coverage of the resolution of the sniper shootings in the Washington D.C. area. As you may expect, the reaction there at this point is one of relief. However, the reaction elsewhere may be one of confusion. We're joined right now on the telephone of a member of John Lee Malvo's family. We understand this is John's half brother Rohan Malvo, who was on the phone with us from Kingston, Jamaica.
Rohan, are you there?
ROHAN MALVO, JOHN MALVO'S HALF BROTHER: Yes, I'm with you.
HARRIS: Give us your reaction to the news that you've been hearing.
MALVO: I saw it on the TV last night, and also a friend told me, and whatever happens, he's my brother, and he's not a violent person, he's not a bad person. We grew up together, and he's not a bad person. That's what I can say about him.
HARRIS: When is the last time that you saw him and talked with him?
MALVO: The last time I saw him was about 12 years ago. He was about 12.
HARRIS: Do have any idea what may have happened to him in the last 12 years, though, what may have changed him, what may have made him think or act differently.
MALVO: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I just don't know.
HARRIS: Did you know John Allen Williams?
MALVO: No, no, I don't know him.
HARRIS: You don't know him at all?
MALVO: No, I don't know nothing about him.
HARRIS: I imagine then you must be surprised to hear that the two of them...
MALVO: I'm so surprised right now that I'm down, and my girlfriend tried to cheer me up. I'm just down.
HARRIS: Well, tell you what you know about John.
MALVO: Well, I can say (UNINTELLIGIBLE). my family, mother, father married. We're different mothers, same fathers, all right? And if ever come by my father's place than we can -- in a month and whatever, and trail us in things when he's much younger, and help when he don't work. He was all right. He wasn't like somebody who would love to fight or anything like that. He always like to read his book and things.
At the age 12, he even passed his common interest exam, and he started to go to this country school. I don't quite remember the name of the country school, but he wasn't a violent person. Did you ever know him to have any kind of a fascination with guns of any kind?
MALVO: No, no, no, never. At the time, ages 12, he didn't show me that part.
HARRIS: You said he was going to a country day school. Did he have any interests at all in pursuing an education and doing something with himself, and growing up -- when he grows up at all.
MALVO: Repeat -- I don't hears what you say.
HARRIS: You mentioned moments ago that he was going to school there in Jamaica. Did he ever talk about his dreams of what he wanted to be when he grew up? Did he want to continue getting an education, and did he have any particular...
MALVO: No, he went out to the country school, we did not see each other again.
HARRIS: But when you see the pictures that we have been showing of him in our television coverage, that is him, that is the John you remembered?
MALVO: But I wonder if I could get the number to call him. We could talk, we could find advice or something, because whenever you're talking to someone, the advice never usually change.
HARRIS: What would you say if you were able to get a call through to him? What would you say if you were able to get a call through?
MALVO: Well, I would just ask him, how did he get himself mixed up in that, because he wasn't like that person who, you know, end up that way. So I have to ask him, what's the reason being that way and that. Because younger, we didn't have that temperament and thing like that. Why now? Why? Why? Why? Why? That's the question I think everyone of is asking, why?
HARRIS: Do you have any intention at all to come to support him here in this country as he goes through the legal process here.
MALVO: Well, if it's possible, I will, I will, because he's my blood brother, and if I should stand by him, I will, because he's my brother, my blood brother. HARRIS: You sound like you just dent believe any of these things that you've heard.
MALVO: But my brother, I just don't believe. I just know. I just don't believe.
I talked to a couple of media already, and I told them that I don't think either one, he's my brother. He's my brother.
HARRIS: What is the rest of your family saying, the other relatives, what are they saying?
MALVO: They're just trying it cope. They're just trying to hold on. And right now, tears are going to come out of my eyes. I just wish if it could have end now, please. Please, I wish we could just end the conversation.
Thank you very much, Rohan Malvo. You take care. Thank you very much for giving us that time in what has got to be a very difficult and very confusing time for you and your family. One can only imagine what you must you must be going through.
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