SAVANNAH, Ga. — A former Army sergeant has been sentenced to life in federal jail for fatally slashing and stabbing a fellow soldier dozens of instances in his barracks at a Georgia base.
A U.S. District Courtroom decide in Savannah sentenced Byron Booker, 29, on Thursday. Booker pleaded responsible final fall to a federal cost of premeditated homicide of a member of the U.S. army within the killing of 21-year-old Army Spc. Austin Hawk at Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Booker beforehand admitted in court docket to plotting the slaying with one other soldier whom Hawk had reported to superiors for smoking marijuana.
The June 2020 killing occurred barely a month after Booker was honorably discharged from the Army when he accomplished his time on energetic obligation, in line with court docket data. Prosecutors mentioned Jordan Brown, a soldier from Booker’s former unit, got here to Booker complaining that Hawk had ruined his life by reporting him for drug use. Brown mentioned he was being kicked out of the Army.
Based on paperwork, Hawk was alone in his barracks room when Booker obtained him to open the door after midnight on June 17, 2020. Booker repeatedly slashed and stabbed Hawk with an unspecified sharp weapon. The health worker counted 40 wounds, together with a deadly gash throughout Hawk’s throat.
Brown pleaded responsible in December to costs of assaulting a army service member and intimidating a witness. He’s nonetheless awaiting sentencing.
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