Fort Carson soldier arrested in connection with death

UPDATE
Army takes over prosecution in soldier slaying March 15, 2013

UPDATE: Carson soldier arrested in connection with Crowne Plaza death
February 17, 2013
MATT STEINER
The Gazette

A Fort Carson soldier turned himself in Sunday afternoon in North Carolina after a dead woman was found in a Colorado Springs hotel room.

Montrell Mayo, 24, is being held in the Pitt County jail in North Carolina on suspicion of first-degree murder.

Colorado Springs police officers were called to the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 2886 S. Circle Drive, before 7 a.m. Sunday to check on the welfare of a woman in a room there. Police checked the room and found a woman dead.

Information about the woman, including her name and what killed her, hasn’t been released.

According to the Greenville, N.C. police, the alleged homicide occurred Thursday or Friday.
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