- A 41-year-old soldier from Fort Riley, Kan., faces charges in Connecticut that he sexually assaulted the 13-year-old daughter of a friend. He had arranged to meet the girl on Facebook, picked her up at her father’s house and took her to a motel. The girl’s mother found a message from her daughter worrying she was pregnant, and a reply from the soldier, worrying he’d go to jail. [via Metro Source News/KSAL-Radio]
- An Alabama jury watched a videotaped confession of a homeless, Iraq vet with mental health issues who kidnapped, robbed and murdered an 18-year-old Auburn University freshman. In his chilling account to police, he told her about his problems, and she offered to help find him a job, but he shot her and let her bleed to death in the road. [via Ledger-Enquirer]
- A Georgia jury is deliberating in the case of a 42-year-old tenant who strangled his 70-year-old widowed landlady, covered her in acid and hid her in the trunk of her own car. He used the woman’s credit cards to pay $2K in utility bills. She was a German immigrant who had escaped the Soviets in WWII and married a G.I. [via Ledger-Enquirer]
- A private on trial for murder in the Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., “rogue platoon” case, pleaded his innocence. “I want to tell you soldier to soldier that I did not commit murder,” he said in court. Attorneys for the soldier, who allegedly smoked hashish and kept a severed finger, said his bullets missed the farmer he is accused of killing. [via the Seattle Times and Reuters]
- About 4,000 people attended the funeral for a veteran MP turned Riverside, Calif., cop who was gunned down during a traffic stop. “Ryan is looking down right now, saying, ‘Is all this for me?'” said his mother. “Having Ryan watching my back is what brought me home,” said one of his buddies. “We were sleeping in the sand, without showers, eating MREs. It was horrible. But Ryan was walking around with the biggest smile on his face.” [via City News Service/swrnn.com]
- A military officer who heard from more than two dozen soldiers wounded during last year’s deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage issued an initial recommendation Tuesday about whether an Army psychiatrist should stand trial in the attack. But the military is not releasing the report. [via Associated Press/Yahoo! News]
- Former Army Lt. Dan Choi, the Iraq war veteran and West Point graduate who has become the face of the movement to lift DADT was arrested at a White House protest. Choi, who has been arrested at the White House before, chanted with the other protesters, “Let us serve! Get visible! Get equal!” [via CNN]
- It’s been a rough couple of weeks for the South Korean military. Five days after a South Korean spy plane crashed during routine training and its two pilots were killed, three soldiers have died and another is unconscious after their boat capsized during a drill. Also last week, a South Korean navy ship sank after colliding with a larger fishing boat. [via Associated Press/Google]
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for the South Korean military. Five days after a South Korean spy plane crashed during routine training and its two pilots were killed, three soldiers have died and another is unconscious after their boat capsized during a drill. Also last week, a South Korean navy ship sank after colliding with a larger fishing boat. [via Associated Press/
Google]
