Ex-soldier 'addicted to killing' guilty but mentally ill

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Ex-soldier 'addicted to killing' guilty but mentally ill
Randall Chase, Associated Press
Updated 1:28 pm, Friday, December 4, 2015

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A former soldier who said he became "addicted to killing" while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan pleaded guilty but mentally ill Friday to charges of raping and killing a Delaware woman.

Dwight L. Smith Jr., 28, entered the plea at a Superior Court hearing in Wilmington. He faces a mandatory sentence of life without parole when he is sentenced April 22.

Smith was charged with killing Marsha Lee of Wilmington while he was on leave from Fort Drum, New York, in December 2011.

Lee, 65, was abducted while walking her dog. Police said at the time that Smith had targeted Lee at random after deciding he wanted to kill somebody. Authorities said he hit Lee with his sport utility vehicle, raped her and beat her to death.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Ex-soldier-pleads-guilty-but-mentally-ill-in-2011-6675822.php

[valerief]

1. That's what soldiers are supposed to do--kill. Like that's what guns are made for--to kill. nt

[southerncrone]

2. More of the fallout from our endless involvement in warring.

We ain't seen nothin' yet. The longer these guys go w/o mental health care, the more dangerous they will become. Yet Congress just can't see fit to give them the help they need. Trained killers among us who can be set off by the least noise, movement or word.
Stop.going.to.war.it's. killing.us.all.