Posted on 11/04/2007 8:51:56 AM PST by SandRat
FORT HUACHUCA — A post Signal Corps soldier was shot and killed and another was wounded early Saturday morning after leaving a nightclub in Tucson.
Both soldiers were members of the 69th Signal Company, said Gordon Van Vleet, spokesman for the Network Enterprise Technology Command/9th Signal Command (Army).
Late Saturday, Tucson police Sgt. Mark Robinson identified the dead soldier as Robert Allen Glenn, 25.
Van Vleet said he was a specialist, who was a cable and wire installer.
The name, rank, age and other personal information about the injured soldier will not be released until 24 hours after their next-of-kin have been notified, said Van Vleet, of whose command the 69th is part.
Robinson said there was a verbal altercation inside Club Envy, which is located at the 5800 east block of Speedway.
“The soldiers left the club. It was no big deal. There was no physical altercation inside the club,” Robinson said.
The three soldiers got into a car with an out-of-state license plate and headed west on Speedway, he said. Approximately a mile later the suspect, who is identified as Jurel Dionne Roberson, 21, drove by the vehicle with the soldiers in it and reportedly fired several shots at them.
The suspect is a black man, 5 foot 9 inches tall, weighing approximately 150 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes and a thin mustache and goatee, Robinson said. The suspect was driving a light-colored 1998 Nissan Ultima with Arizona license plate 697-WPB. The car apparently is not Roberson’s and is not reported stolen, the police spokesman added.
“He (the suspect) fled the scene,” Robinson said.
His shots hit and killed a soldier who was a passenger in the front seat.
The driver was wounded but was able to pull the vehicle into a parking area along Speedway, Roberson said. A soldier in the back seat was not hit. The driver and back seat passenger are in their 20s.
The injured soldier was taken to a Tucson hospital with life-threatening wounds and was operated on, Robinson said. The soldier was listed in serious condition after the operation.
Police received the initial call at 2:12 a.m. Emergency medical personnel arrived on scene shortly after that.
The soldier who was killed was declared dead at the scene at 2:19 a.m.
Army investigators from the fort arrived on scene a few hours later and said they will take over the notification of the next-of-kin process, said Robinson, who was one of the initial responders.
Roberson is being sought on first-degree murder and drive-by shooting charges, the police spokesman said.
Van Vleet said some members of the 69th are scheduled to depart for Iraq later this year. It is unknown if the soldiers involved in the incident were to deploy.
HERALD/REVIEW senior reporter Bill Hess can be reached at 515-4615.
Dems love to manipulate children, and use childern to manipulate adults with spongy brains and soft hearts
I pondered long and hard on the topic of manipulating children during a divorce. I have never done it and abore the very idea
YUP!
You KNOW kids.
Also liberals want you to believe kids are smarter than adults = this fits in nicely there - “innocent” KIDS seeing this MAJOR problem and tired of ADULTS lying. Never mind that they are obviously EMPTY HEADED with HUGE EGOS.
You’re a strong ethical person.
Blessings to you.
*sigh*
Why does this not surprise me..
Yeah, kinda like they want you to believe that animals share moral and intellectual equivalence to humans.
Then they assign talking points to the fuzzy wuzzy :(
That is just horrible..
What is this world coming to?
Thanks for the compliment. I’m just a regular guy
Sorry for staying off topic
I think murdering a US soldier should be the same offense as murdering a federal government employee, or a peace officer and should bring along the same penalties.
Staying=straying
I agree with that
We could make it a hate crime.
I saw no indication in the story that the soldiers were in uniform, so the perp quite possibly didn’t know they were soldiers. Although hair style may have been somewhat of an indication.
No problem we all do it from time to time.
You cant mistake a soldier form a civvy even in civilan clothes
His nom de guerre speaks volumes.
A punk
Works well for me.
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