Wal-Mart kidnapping and murder. Any news reporting killer was a Marine?

[hector459]

I don't know if he ever saw any active duty but this psychopath was able to get into the Marine Corps. What does that tell you?

"The Pentagon confirmed Williams is a Marine on appellate leave -- meaning he is awaiting disciplinary action for an undisclosed reason. He enlisted in 2001 and has been based at Twentynine Palms near Camp Pendleton in California. His last rank on file is E-1, the lowest enlisted rank."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/21/woman.abducted/index.html

[Retired AF Dem]

1. I haven't heard if he is a Marine or not

But thanks to an armed citizen he is now in police custody.

[ynksnewyork2]

2. Oh yeah

Greta on Fox did about 20 minutes on it. He's been out of the marines for awhile I think. He has 2 drug charges in 2000 and 2001. He's a scary looking dude, huh?

[Blue Diadem]

3. according to the article

snip:

He enlisted in 2001 and served in Iraq in 2003, the Marine Corps said. His outfit earned a Presidential Unit Citation for distinguishing itself in combat.





We need to keep track of how many returning Iraqi war vets end up like this.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. In today's CNN story, they say he was in Iraq at one point...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/21/woman.abducted/index.html

<snip>
TYLER, Texas (CNN) -- A Marine who served in Iraq was arrested Friday in connection with the kidnapping and killing of a Wal-Mart cashier snatched from a parking lot in Texas while leaving work.

Police said a man forced 19-year-old Megan Leann Holden into her truck late Wednesday as she was leaving work in Tyler, Texas, and drove off with her.

She was found Friday shot to death in a ditch off of Interstate 20 near Stanton, Texas, about 400 miles west of where she was taken, said Tyler Police Chief Gary Swindle.

<snip>
The U.S. Marine Corps said Williams was on leave, awaiting disciplinary action for using marijuana in February 2004.

He was a logistics clerk who was last assigned to the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, in Twentynine Palms, California.

He enlisted in 2001 and served in Iraq in 2003, the Marine Corps said. His outfit earned a Presidential Unit Citation for distinguishing itself in combat.
</snip>

The time-bombs are coming home to roost...:scared:

[No Exit]

5. Another article said the man had been indicted for

possession of cocaine, on about Dec. 15. He was out on bond and awaiting his court dates.

Meanwhile, one has to wonder why the Wal-mart security guard, who did notice the man and even asked him why he was loitering outside the Wal-mart, didn't also pay attention when this young woman employee had to leave and walk to her truck.

One idiot on another web forum said she "should've had a gun" to protect herself. How the heck was this young woman supposed to pack heat while working as a Wal-mart cashier?? Oh, was she supposed to keep the gun in her locker (AS IF Wal-mart would allow that), then pull it out when she was leaving and brandish the gun as she walked through the parking lot? Sheesh.

[stanwyck]

6. I'm always amazed

when one of the gun nuts pipes up with "if he/she hd a gun, that never would have happened." Right. Because when a woman is getting in her truck at night after working 8+ houts at her hellish job, she's got her gun out, ready to shoot. Really. Do these people think people have guns ready to shoot at every minute? I'm opening the truck door, I've got my purse and my keys, AND I'm covering the parking lot like a sniper.

[underpants]

7. MSNBC sort of mentioned that he had been in Iraq

and his mother apparently said that he tried to get some mental health treatment and the VA showed him the back of their hand. He apparently got busted smoking weed while he was in the Marines.

MSNBC has mentioned it once in the 2 hours I have been listening to-they have reported on it pretty much every half hour. They have switched to the boy who was FOUND in Georgia (thank god).