GIs shot at civilians in Iraq, Springs slaying records show
By Dennis Huspeni , The Gazette
Published January 9, 2008 at 12:30 a.m.
Bastien
Bressler
Eastridge
Shields, an Illinois native, was shot three times.
A Fort Carson soldier told Army investigators he and another soldier routinely shot at Iraqi civilians while on patrol in Baghdad, according to court records filed in a Colorado Springs homicide case.
The Army's Criminal Investigation Command is investigating the alleged war crimes.
Pfc. Bruce Bastien Jr., who faces a first-degree murder charge in the December death of Spc. Kevin Shields, told a CIC agent "about potential crimes which occurred in Iraq during these soldiers' deployment there," the records reveal.
Fort Carson officials referred calls about the probe to CIC headquarters in Virginia, which didn't return calls Tuesday.
Shields was found dead Dec. 1 in the 200 block of South 16th Street near Old Colorado City.
Also charged in the Shields homicide are former soldiers Louis Edward Bressler, 24, of Charlotte, N.C., and Kenneth Eastridge, 24, of Louisville, Ky.
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