AUGUSTA, Ga. — A Nationwide Guard solider appeared in federal court docket Monday charged with homicide in a weekend capturing that left a person useless and triggered a lockdown at a Georgia army base.
Natravien Landry, 25, made an preliminary court docket look earlier than a federal Justice of the Peace decide in Augusta, in keeping with U.S. District Courtroom data. He is charged with a killing Saturday morning at a house on Fort Eisenhower, the place Landry served in a Georgia Nationwide Guard transportation unit.
Commanders at Fort Eisenhower, house to the U.S. Military Cyber Command, ordered a two-hour lockdown due to the capturing. Afterward they gave few particulars, saying an individual had been arrested in an “remoted” deadly capturing on the Military put up adjoining Augusta.
An Military investigator’s affidavit filed in court docket gave additional particulars.
Landry was on obligation Saturday and was taking a break when he went to the on-base house of a former girlfriend, and he confronted and fatally shot one other man who had spent the evening there, in keeping with the affidavit.
Fort Eisenhower officers haven’t launched the sufferer’s identify. He was recognized solely by initials within the investigator’s affidavit.
David Stewart, listed in court docket data as Landry’s legal professional, didn’t instantly return telephone and e mail messages Monday.
Landry fled in a automobile and was arrested later Saturday by sheriff’s deputies in Meriwether County, about 180 miles (290 kilometers) from the bottom. The affidavit stated Landry threw a 9mm handgun from the automobile’s window after being pulled over and admitted to the capturing when questioned by an Military investigator.
