Soldier quietly reassigned after killing man, hitting wife finally faces murder charge
Davis Winkie
Pvt. Jonathan Lauture never once denied that he killed Jason Lindsay on the night of June 19, 2019.
Police officers in El Paso, Texas, said it was a “justified homicide” under state law — Lindsay was just across the door frame of Lauture’s off-post apartment. A grand jury agreed, and Lauture didn’t face civilian criminal charges.
But the Army’s Criminal Investigative Division had no idea Lauture had killed a man, according to Col. Cathy Wilkinson, an Army spokesperson. And at the time, CID had no idea that Lauture had been beating his wife since March 2019.
Fort Bliss CID never learned how Lauture had beaten his wife with a picture frame that night, nor did they learn how Lindsay, who was unarmed, was attempting to rescue Lauture’s wife from the abuse.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2021/07/13/soldier-quietly-reassigned-after-killing-man-hitting-wife-finally-faces-murder-charge/
