FORT STEWART, Ga.—The Army has charged a 28-year-old soldier with murder in the fatal shooting of a sergeant at a Georgia base.
Officials at Fort Stewart identified the suspected gunman Friday as Spc. Shay A. Wilson of Cambria Heights, New York. He has been charged in a military court in the Monday killing of 30-year-old Sgt. Nathan Hillman of Plum, Pennsylvania.
Both soldiers served in the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division. Fort Stewart officials said in a statement that Wilson used a privately owned gun to shoot Hillman at the 2nd Brigade’s building complex and that fellow soldiers subdued the gunman and held him for authorities….