A 28-year outdated man has been charged with murder practically three months after the physique of US Military Pfc. Brandon Rosecrans of Fort Hood was discovered on the aspect of the street in Harker Heights, Texas.
An arrest warrant for Brandon Michael Olivares in connection with the capturing death of the 27-year-old soldier was issued Wednesday, Harker Heights police mentioned.
Olivares was already in custody on the Bell County Jail on unrelated prices. Jail data point out Olivares was arrested earlier in June and charged with third-degree felony possession of a firearm and a parole violation.
Olivares’ bail is ready at $1 million.
Police discovered Rosecrans’ physique on Fuller Lane on Could 18. His deserted Jeep Renegade was found on hearth about 4 miles away.
Olivares and Rosecrans have been driving in Rosecran’s SUV when Olivares shot him and left his physique on a secluded street close to Stillhouse Hole Lake in Harker Heights, about 11 miles from Fort Hood, in accordance with a police affidavit, ABC 13 reported.
No particulars a few attainable motive have been launched.
“The arrest simply gave us much more questions,” Thomas Berg, Rosecrans’ father, mentioned, in accordance with the Statesman. “We do know there are different warrants that may observe.”
Rosecrans’ death is one in a string of not less than seven suspicious deaths and disappearances of troopers stationed at Fort Hood in the final 5 months.
In March, the physique of 20-year-old Shelby Tyler Jones was discovered after he suffered a gunshot wound in south Killeen close to Fort Hood.
A month later, Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillén went lacking, and authorities took three months to search out her physique in July. Her alleged killer, who confessed to the murder and authorities consider sexually assaulted Gullien, Spc. Aaron Robinson, dedicated suicide shortly afterward.
One other soldier, 24-year-old Gregory Scott Morales, was discovered useless in a subject in Killeen in June, practically 10 months after he vanished. Fort Hood authorities mentioned in an announcement they think foul play.
Most not too long ago, on Tuesday, the physique of Francisco Gilberto Hernandezvargas, a 24-year-old soldier primarily based at Fort Hood, was pulled from Stillhouse Hole Lake after he drowned. An investigation is underway.
The lake is similar place the place one other physique, that of 26-year-old Pvt. Mejhor Morta, was discovered in July.
Of the eight deaths this yr, 5 have been publicly linked to foul play, in accordance with the Military Instances.
Secretary of the Military Ryan D. McCarthy on July 10 ordered a evaluate of the command local weather at Fort Hood in gentle of the incidents.
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