Four Fort Stewart soldiers charged with killing ex-soldier and girlfriend

Father: Ex-soldier found slain in Ga. had disagreements with superiors, wanted out of Army

By Associated Press, Published: December 13

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Michael Roark had been in the Army barely a year when he started telling his father he wanted out because of disagreements with superiors at Fort Stewart. He ended up being discharged from the military, but just three days later he was found shot to death along with his girlfriend.

Georgia investigators have charged four soldiers who served with Roark at Fort Stewart in the double slaying. The 19-year-old former soldier’s father said Tuesday his son wasn’t getting along well at the Army post and had complained of a supervisor who was “coming down on his head,” but nothing that made him sense there was any danger.

“The last month and a half or two months, there was a lot of dissatisfaction between him and that NCO (noncommissioned officer) and others,” Brett Roark, the slain man’s father, told The Associated Press in an interview. “All of a sudden he went from wanting to be in the Army to saying, ‘I want to be out of the Army.’”

Fishermen found the bodies of Michael Roark and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Tiffany York, earlier this month off a dirt road in rural Long County near the Army post. Both victims had been shot in the head. On Monday agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced charges against the four soldiers.
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