Ex-Husband charged with killing Sgt. Shaneka Jones

FORT HOOD

Soldier stabbed to death

A Fort Hood soldier was fatally stabbed, and her civilian ex-husband is being charged with murder, an FBI official said Monday.

Fort Hood police found the soldier wounded in her home on the post after receiving a 911 call about 3 a.m. Monday, Army officials said. Emergency responders could not revive her, and she was pronounced dead at a nearby Army hospital.

Sgt. Shaneka Jones, 26, apparently had been arguing with Donovan Lair, 36, before she was stabbed once in the chest, FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said. Lair was detained at the house by military police, Vasys said.

Because Lair is not a soldier, he was taken into custody by FBI agents and taken from Killeen to Waco, where he appeared before a federal magistrate Monday, Vasys said.

Lair was ordered to be detained until a preliminary hearing Thursday, when bail will be discussed, Vasys said.
Soldier stabbed to death