Woman accused of killing two soldiers could face death
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - An Army Specialist accused of killing two fellow soldiers and taking their baby will face a court martial.
The Army announced Monday that they have referred charges of premeditated murder, burglary and kidnapping against Spc. Ivette Davila to a General Court-Martial empowered to give the death penalty if she is convicted.
According to court documents filed in Pierce County before the Army took over the prosecution, Davila allegedly confessed to another soldier that she went to Randi Miller's home in Parkland to kill her because she thought the woman was having an affair with Davila's ex-boyfriend.
Investigators, though, said it was not known if any affair was actually taking place.
Randi was shot multiple times while in bed and her husband Timothy was killed in the shower. Davila allegedly drove to a hardware store after the shootings to purchase muriatic acid, which investigators say she poured over the two bodies in a bathtub in an attempt to dispose of them.
Court documents indicate that Davila then took the Miller's then 6-month-old baby girl and went back to her barracks at Fort Lewis. Before her arrest, she had been serving as a chemical operations specialist with Fort Lewis' Headquarters and Headquarters Company, I Corps, as a member of the Fort Lewis ceremonial color guard.
The Army has not given a date of Davila's court martial would begin.
The Army announced Monday that they have referred charges of premeditated murder, burglary and kidnapping against Spc. Ivette Davila to a General Court-Martial empowered to give the death penalty if she is convicted.
According to court documents filed in Pierce County before the Army took over the prosecution, Davila allegedly confessed to another soldier that she went to Randi Miller's home in Parkland to kill her because she thought the woman was having an affair with Davila's ex-boyfriend.
Investigators, though, said it was not known if any affair was actually taking place.
Randi was shot multiple times while in bed and her husband Timothy was killed in the shower. Davila allegedly drove to a hardware store after the shootings to purchase muriatic acid, which investigators say she poured over the two bodies in a bathtub in an attempt to dispose of them.
Court documents indicate that Davila then took the Miller's then 6-month-old baby girl and went back to her barracks at Fort Lewis. Before her arrest, she had been serving as a chemical operations specialist with Fort Lewis' Headquarters and Headquarters Company, I Corps, as a member of the Fort Lewis ceremonial color guard.
The Army has not given a date of Davila's court martial would begin.