TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - Lawyers for a U.S. soldier charged with killing five fellow servicemen in 2009 at a military counselling centre in Iraq asked an Army judge on Tuesday to reject a finding that the defendant is mentally fit to stand trial at a court-martial next month.
Sergeant John Russell, who could face the death penalty if convicted, is accused of going on a shooting frenzy at Camp Liberty, near Baghdad airport, in an attack that the military said at the time could have been triggered by combat stress.