Ex-Army sergeant admits to brutal stabbing death of soldier in Georgia barracks for 'snitching'
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A former Army soldier pleaded guilty to killing another soldier who reported his friend to his superiors for drug use, prosecutors said.
Booker plotted Hawk's death with another soldier, Jordan Brown, 21, after Hawk reported Brown to superiors for smoking marijuana, prosecutors said. Louis Casiano is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to louis.casiano@fox.com.
"Byron Booker murdered a former fellow soldier in cold blood in retaliation for that soldier performing his duties as a service member," said U.S. Attorney Estes, himself a retired U.S. Army Colonel.
Federal prosecutors said Booker sneaked into Hawk's barracks room on June 17, 2020, after parking his vehicle a mile away outside the Fort Stewart Military Reservation and "unlawfully" walking onto the post. Once inside the barracks room, he "slashed and stabbed Hawk repeatedly with a sharp-edged weapon," court documents state.