Soldier in custody following death of Fort Drum GI, investigators say
A soldier missing from Fort Drum in New York has been found dead and another service member is in custody, officials said.
An investigation into the death of Cpl. Hayden Allen Harris is ongoing, the US Army’s Criminal Investigation Command said in a news release Sunday.
Harris, 20, was last heard from between Thursday evening and early Friday. He was meeting someone in Watertown for “some type of vehicle exchange,” according to Army CID.
Jamaal Mellish, 23, also a US Army soldier, is awaiting formal charges in the case, the Byram Township Police Department in New Jersey said Monday. It was unclear whether Mellish has an attorney.
FORT DRUM â An argument between two Fort Drum soldiers swapping their vehicles with each other apparently led to one of them being shot to death in a wooded area in northern New Jersey.
First Assistant Prosecutor Gregory Mueller told the New Jersey Herald that the body of Cpl. Hayden A. Harris, 20, was found on Saturday in a wooded area in Byram Township, Sussex County, N.J., and a fellow soldier was taken into custody in connection with his death.Â
Pvt. Jamaal Mellish, 23, remains in the custody of Fort Drum Military Police.
Cpl. Harris was meeting with Mellish âfor some type of vehicle exchangeâ in Watertown when the meeting escalated, according to the New Jersey newspaper.
Missing Fort Drum soldier, 23, is found shot dead after being kidnapped by fellow soldier, 20, and driven 270 miles from New York to New Jersey following argument over a pickup truck
Missing Fort Drum soldier Cpl. Hayden Harris, 20, was found dead on Saturday suffering a gunshot wound in Byram Township, New Jersey
He was last heard from late Thursday into early Friday after he left Fort Drum for Watertown, New York for a vehicle transaction
Soldier Jamaal Mellish, 23, who he was slated to meet, was arrested in his death
The two soldiers had met to discuss a disagreement over a 2017 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck
FORT DRUM â An argument between two Fort Drum soldiers swapping their vehicles with each other apparently led to one of them being shot to death in a wooded area in northern New Jersey.
First Assistant Prosecutor Gregory Mueller told the New Jersey Herald that the body of Cpl. Hayden A. Harris, 20, was found on Saturday in a wooded area in Byram Township, Sussex County, N.J., and a fellow soldier was taken into custody in connection with his death.Â
Pvt. Jamaal Mellish, 23, remains in the custody of Fort Drum Military Police.
Cpl. Harris was meeting with Mellish âfor some type of vehicle exchangeâ in Watertown when the meeting escalated, according to the New Jersey newspaper.
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