Soldier Gets 24 Years for Killing 3 Afghan Civilians -- New York Times
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — A soldier accused of killing Afghan civilians for sport was sentenced Wednesday to 24 years in prison after he pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against other defendants in the case.
Specialist Jeremy N. Morlock, one of five soldiers from an Army Stryker brigade based here who are accused of staging combat situations to kill three civilians in Afghanistan last year, told the military judge presiding over the case, Lt. Col. Kwasi L. Hawks, that the deaths were neither justified nor accidental.
“The plan was to kill people, sir,” Specialist Morlock told the judge at the start of a court-martial.
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