MilBlogger Murdered

Smash alerts us to the death of Navy Reservist Paul Berkley known in the MilBlog community as Legibletrout. He was shot in the head while on leave from Bahrain, the location of Fifth Fleet Headquarters.

Smash is praying for the swift recovery of his widow who was also shot. Me, not so much.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Police have arrested the wife of a man who was killed after he was shot this weekend at a Raleigh park. Police have also arrested two other suspects in the case.

Paul Berkley, 46, and his wife, Monique Berkley, 26, of Clayton, were shot while on a pathway in Millbrook Exchange Park shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday.

Monique Berkley was arrested Monday and charged with one count of murder. Andrew Deshawn Canty and Latwon Darrell Johnson, both 18, were arrested Sunday and were each charged with one count of murder.

WRAL has obtained a picture of Monique Berkley and Andrew Canty. However, the nature of their relationship is not known.

Paul Berkley, a reservist who just returned from the Middle East on Thursday, died at WakeMed after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head.

Smash has the link to the rest of the story.

More on this later.

22 December update from Smash:

The story gets more bizarre by the minute: Paul, Monique, Becky, and Zeke (Paul's 18-year-old son) all have weblogs. Police are reportedly combing these weblogs, as well as those of various friends of the family, for evidence.

I try to sort the whole sordid mess out here