A federal jury convicted a former U.S. Army soldier of murdering a pregnant teenage fellow soldier on a U.S. Army base in Germany 23 years ago, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement Tuesday.
The jury in Pensacola, Florida, convicted Shannon L. Wilkerson, 43, of second-degree murder Monday, judging from court documents and evidence presented that Wilkerson “beat and strangled [pregnant 19-year-old] Amanda Gonzales to death in her barracks room at Fliegerhorst Kaserne, then a U.S. Army base in Hanau, Germany,” on Nov. 3, 2001, according to the DOJ’s statement.
Wilkerson, who was later discharged, believed Gonzales was pregnant with his child, said Executive Assistant Director Timothy R. Langan Jr. of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, the statement reported.
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