Fort Bragg Staff Sgt.'s death under investigation

Fort Bragg soldier found unresponsive in Hope Mills home, later dies
Fay Observer
January 31, 2014

A soldier with the 82nd Airborne Division was found unresponsive at his Hope Mills home early Tuesday and was later pronounced dead.

The cause of death is under investigation, Fort Bragg officials said Thursday in a news release.

Staff Sgt. Alton Jefferson II, 36, of Lancaster, Calif., was a military intelligence systems maintainer/integrator with Delta Company, 127th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team.

Jefferson joined the Army in October 2000, attended basic combat training at Fort Jackson, S.C., and advanced individual training at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. He joined the 82nd Airborne Division in February 2012, the release said.
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Why would a soldier walk into a Chaplain's office with a gun?

Why would a soldier walk into a Chaplain's office with a gun?

These are the questions the reporter wanted to know.

"The unanswered queries include: Was the soldier going to the chaplain’s office as a cry for help? He had recently returned from deployment, so was he provided any mental health assistance on the day of his arrest? Was he considered a danger to himself?"

He was in the military for 12 years! He must have had some run in with the Chaplain before this but so far, no one knows what happened. He walked in with a gun but was not arrested for threatening the Chaplain according to the reports. What happened here and why is he dead?

Soldier found dead after arrest for gun

Wed, 08/03/2011

BY BILL HESS
Herald/Review
FORT HUACHUCA — A 12-year Army veteran died “of an apparent gunshot wound,” a few hours after being arrested Monday for carrying a gun into a fort building, post spokeswoman Tanja Linton stated in a press release Wednesday.

The death of Sgt. 1st Class Jose J. Algarin-Colon occurred Monday afternoon, but the release was delayed until 24 hours after his family was notified.

Monday morning, the soldier was arrested by military police for “bringing a loaded weapon to Greely Hall,” Linton’s press release stated. That incident was reported as a brief, without the soldier’s name, in Tuesday’s edition of the Herald/Review, with no other details coming from the post public affairs office.

Sources said the 38-year-old soldier had gone into the building carrying the gun and had gone to the chaplain’s office, which reported him to post law enforcement for carrying a weapon into the building.

Such actions generally violate military law, which only allows law enforcement officials or soldiers during exercises to enter military structures with weapons, although generally during exercises the non-law enforcement soldiers do not have ammunition.

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Soldier found dead after arrest for gun

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Army releases name of soldier found dead

Army releases name of soldier found dead at Ariz's Fort Huachuca

Army releases name of soldier found dead at Ariz's Fort Huachuca hours after his weapon arrest
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: August 03, 2011
FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. — Army officials have released the name of a soldier found dead in his residence at Fort Huachuca in southern Arizona.

Authorities say 38-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Jose J. Algarin-Colon died Monday afternoon of an apparent gunshot wound.
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Army releases name of soldier found dead at Ariz's Fort Huachuca

Man accused of posing as Air Force General got past security at Fort Huachuca

Man Accused of Posing as Air Force General
June 24, 2011
Arizona Daily Star
A Tucson man is being jailed until his July arraignment on suspicion he posed as a two-star general to get onto Southern Arizona's largest military installation.

Jeffery Lee Bennett, 46, is accused of donning a U.S. Air Force uniform with the rank of major general and entering the Fort Huachuca Army post in Sierra Vista on two occasions in March and April.

He's also accused of possessing a fake military identification card and of knowingly putting a phony Department of Defense vehicle sticker on the silver Volkswagen used to drive past the fort's guard gates.

While dressed as a general, the suspect went shopping at the fort's commissary and post exchange and bought $62 worth of groceries and tax-free items, federal court records say.
Man Accused of Posing as Air Force General

Death of Fort Huachuca soldier called negligent homicide

Death of Fort Huachuca soldier called negligent homicide
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA

Death of Fort Huachuca soldier called negligent homicide
Pfc. Eli Baker, of California, was given morphine he wasn't prescribed while in a medical barracks at the Army post in Sierra Vista
By Brian J. Pedersen
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona Published: 12.03.2008

An Army investigation has determined the death of a soldier earlier this year in a medical barracks at Fort Huachuca was a negligent homicide.

Pfc. Eli Baker, 22, died as the result of a morphine overdose, said Chris Grey, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command.

“We have reason to believe that someone supplied him with that morphine, but he was not prescribed that morphine,” Grey said.
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http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/270035.php

Pvt. Paul Timothy Muse, passed away after brain surgery

GI found dead was recovering from brain surgery

The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Nov 16, 2008 10:27:46 EST

SPERRY, Okla. — A Sperry soldier found dead in his barracks room at an Arizona Army post had been recovering from surgery to remove a tumor on his brain stem, his father said.

Pvt. Paul Timothy Muse, 22, was found in his bed Nov. 8 during a morning inspection at the Warriors in Transition unit at Fort Huachuca, located southeast of Tucson, Ariz.

The unit provides physical and mental health help to soldiers wounded in action and other troops recovering from medical conditions. A Fort Huachuca spokeswoman said Muse arrived at the unit Oct. 6.

The soldier’s father, Douglas Muse, told the Tulsa World his son began preparing last fall for a December deployment to Iraq.

“He was getting headaches and blacking out from time to time,” the father stated in an e-mail to the newspaper.

On Nov. 6, his son went to the base hospital because his head and ears had swollen. Doctors managed to reduce his swelling, and he was discharged the next day.

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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/11/ap_muse_111608/

Soldier found dead in Fort Huachuca Warrior Transition Unit

Soldier found dead in Fort Huachuca barracks
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.12.2008
A 22-year-old soldier has been found dead in his barracks at Fort Huachuca, the second such death this year.

The body of Pvt. Paul Muse, a native of Oklahoma, was discovered Saturday morning in the fort’s Warriors in Transition Unit, officials announced today.

The unit provides physical and mental health help for soldiers wounded in action and other troops recovering from medical conditions.

On Jan. 28, another 22-year-old soldier, Pfc. Eli Baker of California, was found dead in the same unit at Fort Huachuca.
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Pfc. Eli Mundt Baker non-combat death at Fort Huachuca

Army IDs soldier found dead in barracks
Staff report
Posted : Wednesday Jan 30, 2008 16:10:25 EST

Officials on Wednesday identified the soldier who was found dead in the Warrior Transition Unit barracks at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
Pfc. Eli Mundt Baker, 22, of Foothill Ranch, Calif., was undergoing advanced individual training at Fort Huachuca.
On Monday morning, military police and emergency medical services responded to a 911 call from a noncommissioned officer in the barracks. Baker was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:12 a.m.
The cause of death is still under investigation.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/01/army_huachucaupdate_080130w/

Fort Huachuca soldier found dead in Warrior Transition Unit

Huachuca soldier found dead in barracks

Staff report
Posted : Tuesday Jan 29, 2008 22:07:46 EST

A soldier undergoing advanced individual training was found dead in the Warrior Transition Unit barracks Monday morning at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., according to a press release.

The soldier’s name has not been released, pending notification of family.

Military police and emergency medical services responded to a 911 call from a noncommissioned officer in the barracks. The soldier was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:12 a.m.

The cause of death is still under investigation.