The following Iraq war veterans from Fort Carson’s 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division have been charged with or convicted in homicides or attempted homicides in approximately the past year.
As many as three other brigade members were implicated in earlier cases.
— Spc. Robert Hull Marko, 21, faces first-degree murder and sexual assault charges in the rape and knife slaying of a 19-year-old woman west of Colorado Springs on Oct. 10. He has not entered a plea.
— Pfc. Jomar Dionisio Falu-Vives, 24, faces first-degree murder charges in the June 6 deaths of a Colorado Springs couple who were shot while putting up garage sale signs. He faces attempted-murder charges in the May 26 wounding of an Army captain who was shot twice while standing at an intersection. He has not entered pleas.
— Spc. Rodolfo Torres-Gandarilla, 20, is a co-defendant of Falu-Vives’ in the wounding of the Army captain and faces attempted murder charges.
— Pfc. Bruce Bastien Jr., 22, pleaded guilty in July to accessory to murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the separate shooting deaths of two Iraq war veterans in 2007 whose bodies were found on a sidewalk and in a bank parking lot in Colorado Springs. Bastien was sentenced in September to 60 years in prison.
— Former soldier Kenneth Eastridge, 24, was a co-defendant of Bastien’s in one of the 2007 slayings. Eastridge pleaded guilty to accessory to murder in July and was sentenced in November to 10 years in prison.
— Former soldier Louis Bressler, 25, a co-defendant of Eastridge and Bastien’s, was convicted in November of conspiracy to commit murder in one of the 2007 slayings but acquitted of first-degree murder. He faces up to 48 years in prison but has not been sentenced. He is also charged with first-degree murder in the other 2007 slaying. His trial in that case has been postponed.
