Army vet and charged him with first-degree murder

Man shot dead ‘execution style’ by Iraq war veteran friend who 'he was trying to help through struggles with PTSD'
Army vet Paul Vermillion admitted to police he shot Genghis Muskox dead
He said the killing was in self-defense during a fight
Multiple people have refuted that claim, with one friend of Mr Muskox's claiming Mr Vermillion had pointed a gun at the man on more than once
Daily Mail
By RYAN GORMAN
PUBLISHED: 09:49 EST, 12 January 2014

An Iraq war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder told police he killed his friend execution-style. Paul Vermillion, 30, of Anchorage, Alaska, admitted Dec 5 to Alaska State Troopers that he shot Genghis Muskox, 27, dead – but he said the killing was in self defense.

‘I executed the threat,’ Mr Vermillion said to investigators, a source told the Peninsula Clarion.

Troopers arrived at Mr Vermillion’s vacation home in Cooper Landing, a town about 100 miles south of Anchorage, after he called 911 to report the killing and discovered Mr Muskox’s bullet-riddled body.

The slain man had been shot twice in the head and multiple times in the chest, authorities told the Clarion.

When asked by cops if he killed the man, Mr Vermillion replied ‘yes.’

They immediately arrested the Army vet and charged him with first-degree murder.

Mr Vermillion told police he shot the man while defending himself after the two men got into a fight and Mr Muskox choked him, his family told the Clarion.

‘He might have shot off his mouth, and he might have gotten himself into trouble,’ Susan Muskat, Mr Muskox’s mother, told the Alaska Dispatch, but she vehemently denied her soon was violent.
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