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William J. Kreutzer Jr. (born 1969) is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted of killing one officer and wounding 18 other soldiers when he opened fire on a physical training formation on October 27, 1995, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. [1]
William Kreutzer Jr. – killed an officer and wounded 18 fellow soldiers at Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty) when he opened fire on them in the callisthenics field during a physical training formation. He was initially sentenced to death, but his death sentence was reduced to life in prison with the possibility of parole on appeal.
The 1995 Fayetteville murders were the killings of a black couple by white supremacists in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on December 7, 1995. [1] The killers, James Norman Burmeister and Malcolm Wright, were paratroopers at Fort Bragg where Burmeister was reportedly open about his views, and had a Nazi flag hanging in his room.
On March 23, 1994, then-Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base saw a mid-air collision that killed 24 paratroopers on the ground. Green Ramp memories: How soldiers and survivors recalled deadly 1994 ...
Fort Bragg Garrison Commander Col. Scott Pence speaks at Fayetteville's Veterans Day ceremony at Segra Stadium on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021.
Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831), French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer; Samuel Kreutzer (1894-1971), Australian rugby player; Volker Kreutzer, West German sprint canoer; William Kreutzer, Jr. (born 1969), American soldier infamous for assassinating his commander and opening fire on his fellow soldiers at Fort Bragg
William Kreutzer Jr. – Killed an officer and wounded 18 fellow soldiers at Fort Bragg when he opened fire on them in the callisthenics field during a physical training formation. He was initially sentenced to death, but his death sentence was reduced to life in prison with the possibility of parole on appeal.
Earlier this month, the Department of Defense announced that Fort Bragg, which was established in 1918, would be renamed Fort Liberty. The Pentagon began the initiative to rename military bases in ...