NCOs killed while counseling soldier in Iraq, Army says

Soldier used M4 to gun down peers
NCOs killed while counseling soldier in Iraq, Army says
By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Sep 22, 2008

FORT STEWART, Ga. — A 1 a.m. counseling session at a small outpost in Iraq took a fatal turn Sept. 14, Army officials say, when the soldier being counseled opened fire with his M4 on a fellow team leader and their squad leader.

Both the team leader and squad leader died that night despite efforts to save them.

The incident took place at a joint security station in Jurf as Sakhr, a town about 15 miles southwest of Baghdad on the Euphrates River, where soldiers with A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, were on duty.

The two soldiers killed were identified as Staff Sgt. Darris J. Dawson, 24, of Pensacola, Fla., a squad leader, and Sgt. Wesley R. Durbin, 26, of Hurst, Texas, a fellow team leader.

The soldier who allegedly shot them was in Dawson’s squad. The Army refused to identify him pending the filing of charges.

“As best we can determine at this time, the staff sergeant and sergeant went in to talk to the individual, whose performance was lacking. As the counseling session developed, that’s when the shooting happened,” division Chief of Staff Col. Terry Ferrell told Army Times on Sept. 19.
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