Ex-soldier serving life for killing 4 Iraqi family members dies in federal prison in Ariz.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}FILE - In this April 29, 2009 file photo, former 101st Airborne Division Pfc. Steven Dale Green is escorted to the courthouse on the third day of his trial in Paducah, Ky. Green, convicted of raping and killing a teenage Iraqi girl and using a shotgun to kill her family, died Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014 in prison in Arizona, likely of suicide. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File) (The Associated Press)
Officials say an ex-soldier has died in a federal prison where he was serving several life terms for gunning down four members of an Iraqi family during a deployment to their country.
Twenty-eight-year-old Steven Dale Green of Texas was convicted in 2009 for raping and killing 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi (ah-BEER' kah-SEEM' al-jah-NAH'-bee), and gunning down three members of her family.
Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman John Stahley says Green was found dead Saturday in his prison cell in Arizona and it was likely a suicide.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Green was a private in the 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell on the Kentucky-Tennessee state line when he deployed to Iraq.
The crimes occurred in March 2006 when Green and three other soldiers went to the family's home in Mahmoudiya (mom-ah-DEE'-ah), Iraq.