BAGHDAD — A U.S. soldier in Iraq is accused of fatally shooting two other American service members and injuring a third after an argument in Iraq’s Anbar province last week, the military said.
A statement issued Tuesday by U.S. forces said Spec. Neftaly Platero, 32, was being held in Iraq while the military conducts an investigation into the killings in Fallujah.
Col. Barry Johnson, a U.S. military spokesman, said that the four men got into an argument Thursday on a U.S. base. Platero, of the Houston area, apparently then pulled his weapon and “started shooting,” Johnson said.
A Pentagon statement said Spec. John Carrillo Jr., 20, of Stockton, Calif., and Pfc. Gebrah P. Noonan, 26, of Watertown, Conn., died from their injuries Friday. No information was released on the wounded soldier.
By The Washington Post
