Slain Ft. Stewart soldier never violent

Mother: Slain Ft. Stewart soldier never violent

By RUSS BYNUM
Associated Press
5:36 p.m. CST, December 16, 2010



SAVANNAH, Ga. — A slain Fort Stewart soldier was never violent, his mother said Thursday, disputing an assertion by the military that her son may have been the aggressor in a domestic fight that led to his death.

Army Spc. Alante L. Whiting, 22, of Westland, Mich., was fatally stabbed on the Georgia Army post Dec. 8 just hours after he returned from a tour in Iraq. He died at Fort Stewart's hospital.

His mother, Alesia Whiting, told The Associated Press that she spoke with her son, an Army intelligence analyst, by phone after his unit's flight landed in Georgia. She said he sounded like he couldn't be happier to be back.

"He was ecstatic -- laughing, joking, being silly," Alesia Whiting said. "He was telling me about the gift basket in his room that the soldiers all get. He was just talking about stuff in the future, saying, `I can't wait to get home, mommy."'


Within 18 hours after he arrived at Fort Stewart, Alante Whiting was dead. A delivery driver found him bleeding outside his barracks on Fort Stewart and called 911.
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