Soldier And Juvenile Charged With Kidnapping, Murdering Fellow Serviceman
On 12/29/20 at 6:42 AM EST
Authorities have charged a U.S. Army soldier and a 16-year-old boy with murdering a fellow soldier who was found shot dead in New Jersey.
The body of 20-year-old Corporal Hayden Harris was discovered by police in a wooded area of Byram Township, New Jersey, on December 19.
Harris, of Guys, Tennessee, was last heard from as he headed from the Fort Drum base near the Canadian border to Watertown, New York, for a vehicle transaction, the U.S. Army s Criminal Investigation Command said.
In a news release on Monday, Sussex County Prosecutor Francis A. Koch said Specialist Jamaal Mellish and a 16-year-old boy, who was not identified, have been charged in connection with Harris s death.
Army specialist and teenager charged with kidnapping, killing 20-year-old soldier
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
Posted Dec 29, 2020
Hayden Harris, 20, was found shot to death in a wooded area in Sussex County.(U.S. Army photo)
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Two people, including a fellow soldier, have been charged with killing a U.S. Army soldier whose body was discovered in Sussex County, N.J., this month, authorities said.
Specialist Jamaal Mellish, 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a 16-year-old male whose name was not released were charged with kidnapping and killing 20-year-old Cpl. Hayden Harris, the Sussex County prosecutor’s office announced Monday.
Harris, who was assigned to Fort Drum in upstate New York, was found shot to death on Dec. 19 in a wooded area near Ross Road in Byram Township, Sussex County First Assistant Prosecutor Gregory Mueller said earlier this month.
Army K9 and handler honored for discovering IED cache in Syria
Fritz, a military working dog, and his handler Sgt. Michael Ramirez received Army Commendation Medals in December for discovering a cache of unexploded bombs in Syria.
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7 FORT DRUM, N.Y. (Dec. 21, 2020) Over the past few weeks, members of the Fort Drum community have been popping up on television screens across the North Country with messages of holiday cheer.
Among these groups, and perhaps not as familiar a name as the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade or the 10th Mountain Division Band, is the Fort Drum Sgt. Audie Murphy Club (SAMC).
Although its members are quite active in the community, it’s a military organization that even some Soldiers aren’t entirely knowledgeable about.
First Sgt. Raymond Huff was introduced to this prestigious club while serving as an instructor at the NCO Academy at Fort Rucker, Alabama.