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Friday, June 04, 2004
TROPICAL LIGHTNING SOLDIER FACES MURDER CHARGE FOR IRAQ KILLING
The Honolulu Advertiser reports that the Commanding General of 25th ID/Schofield Barracks, MG John Batiste, is considering charging PFC Edward Richmond with Article 118, unpremeditated murder, in the killing of an Iraqi cowherder:
On Feb. 28, 1-27 soldiers were conducting a morning search for known terrorists around Al Huwijah — a city of more than 85,000 people, mostly Sunni Muslims, about 40 miles southwest of Kirkuk.
According to reports, the middle-age Iraqi man was running and "resisting apprehension," but the Army did not elaborate.
Richmond, 20, a native of Gonzales, La., had his weapons confiscated and is suspended from active duty but is not being detained, said his father, Edward Richmond Sr. He said his son is at the Kirkuk Air Base.
