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3 Buddies Home From Iraq Are Charged With Murdering a 4th
"COLORADO SPRINGS — After surviving intense combat in Iraq, Specialist Kevin Shields was killed on what he had thought was friendly soil. His bloody, bullet-riddled body was found by a newspaper deliverer, sprawled on a downtown sidewalk here on Dec. 1.
The accused — Kenneth Eastridge, top, Pfc. Bruce Bastien Jr., center, and Louis Bressler — all served with Specialist Shields.
Three of Specialist Shields’s buddies, all current or former soldiers who served with him in Iraq before their return last year, have been charged with murdering him. Details are still emerging, but his death, and that of an Army private whose killing has now been attributed by the authorities to two of the three men charged in the Shields case, have shaken this staunchly pro-military city and Fort Carson, an expansive Army base on the edge of town."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/us/12soldier.html?_r=2&ref=us&oref=login&oref=slogin
"COLORADO SPRINGS — After surviving intense combat in Iraq, Specialist Kevin Shields was killed on what he had thought was friendly soil. His bloody, bullet-riddled body was found by a newspaper deliverer, sprawled on a downtown sidewalk here on Dec. 1.
The accused — Kenneth Eastridge, top, Pfc. Bruce Bastien Jr., center, and Louis Bressler — all served with Specialist Shields.
Three of Specialist Shields’s buddies, all current or former soldiers who served with him in Iraq before their return last year, have been charged with murdering him. Details are still emerging, but his death, and that of an Army private whose killing has now been attributed by the authorities to two of the three men charged in the Shields case, have shaken this staunchly pro-military city and Fort Carson, an expansive Army base on the edge of town."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/us/12soldier.html?_r=2&ref=us&oref=login&oref=slogin