January 28, 2012 Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier shoots up wrong house searching for wife’s lover www.privateofficer.com
OLYMPIA WA Jan 28 2012 – A Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier returns home from war and discovers his wife is having an affair. Prosecutors say he then went on a jealous rampage and opened fire on a house. But he made one big mistake. It was the wrong house.
Thurston County prosecutors say the 25-year-old soldier was drunk and mad New Year’s night.
He’d found the name of the guy his wife was cheating with and Googled him. He got an address and headed there, gun loaded.
“I kinda ducked a little bit and I looked out the front window,” said neighbor William Koutrouba. “I kinda heard a crack, crack, crack.”
Koutrouba knows the difference between firecrackers and gunfire. The Army vet woke up early News Year’s morning to gunshots hitting his next door neighbor’s house.
Gun shots riddled the house eight or nine times, and there’s a baby there.
Thurston County prosecutors say it was a 25-year-old JBLM Special Forces soldier who just returned home from Iraq a few weeks ago.
And he wasn’t aiming for the house with the baby. Prosecutors say he was trying for the house behind it–the one where his wife’s lover lives.
The soldier is being held on $100,000 bail, and his wife, also in courtroom, told us she knew nothing about this until her husband was arrested.
“Get your surveillance straight, get the right house you little gang banger,” said Koutrouba.
Koutrouba was surprised to hear the suspect is in the military. He knows what it feels like to come home and things are different, but this is not the way to deal with it.
“Shame on you young man. I know lots of military men that would be saying the same thing,” said Koutrouba.
Police tracked down the soldier a few blocks away. He’d crashed his car and was arrested for DUI.
Source:king5.com
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