"Like in all your roadblocks, I leave and get back inside the roadblock," he said.
Malvo also told police that the shootings were carefully planned, even to the point of leaving notes for police beforehand.
He described leaving the weapon behind in "all kind of places" after the shootings, thinking that police would not look in the most obvious places, then retrieving it later.
Malvo predicted that if the shootings had continued, the National Guard would have been brought in, creating a "military siege."
He said that would have hurt the economy and forced the government to pay the US$10 million the snipers had demanded.
He refused to tell police whether most of the shootings were done in or out of Muhammad's car, which prosecutors say was outfitted as a sniper's nest.
"That's for you to figure out," he said. He later bragged, "I can hit you in the head from the car or I can hit you in the head from outside."
Malvo said he couldn't have done the shootings without Muhammad, who acted as his spotter.
"It's a team, a team, team, team," he said.
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