Soldier arraigned in ‘fragging’ case
An Army National Guard soldier was arraigned at Ft. Bragg on charges of killing two superior officers in Iraq and could face the death penalty.
In the first case of a U.S. soldier charged with killing, or “fragging,” his commanding officers in the Iraq war, Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez faces two counts of premeditated murder in the June 2005 deaths of company commander Capt. Phillip Esposito and 1st Lt. Louis Allen at a base near Tikrit, Iraq.
The presiding judge, Col. Patrick Parrish, set a tentative trial date of June 4.
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