FORT DRUM, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — On Monday, August 12, Fort Drum announced that Specialist Riley Birbilas was charged in connection with the death of Specialist Jacob Ashton. A press release from ...

Fort Drum said back in August, “The general nature of the charges are premeditated murder and obstruction of justice in violation of Articles 118 and 131b of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.” ...

Officials haven’t offered a possible motive for the killing Spc. Jacob Ashton, 21, of Perry, Ohio. U.S. Army Spc. Riley F. Birbilas was charged Monday with premeditated murder.

A 10th Mountain Division soldier has been charged with the murder of a fellow soldier at the Fort Drum, New York base, Army officials said. Spc. Riley Birbilas was charged Monday in the murder of Spc.

Jurors in the trial of a Fort Drum soldier accused of killing a U.S. Army corporal got a look Thursday at data collected from the defendant's cell phone, providing a timeline leading up to and ...

On Friday, Aug. 2, U.S. Army Specialist Jacob Ashton left Fort Drum in upstate New York for the five-and-a-half-hour drive to his hometown in Ohio, where he spent the weekend with his girlfriend.

24—FORT DRUM — A Fort Drum soldier and former Watertown ... Aiken, who was 16 at the time of the murder in December 2020, is being tried as an adult. Mellish remains behind bars in a New ...

Riley Birbilas was arrested and charged with premeditated murder and obstruction of justice in connection with Ashton’s death. During the investigation, Fort Drum soldier Specialist Riley ...

A Fort Drum soldier faces a murder charge in the death of another soldier in his 10th Mountain Division unit at the Army post in upstate New York, service officials said Tuesday. The Army charged Spc.

FORT DRUM, N.Y. — A soldier at Fort Drum has been accused of the murder of a fellow soldier. On August 5, 21-year-old Specialist Jacob Ashton of Ohio was found deceased on post, according to a ...

Spc. Riley Birbilas is charged with murder in the death of Spc. Jacob Ashton, who was found dead at Fort Drum, New York, on Aug. 5. (Fort Drum) Editor’s note: This story has been updated.

A Fort Drum soldier has been accused of murdering a fellow soldier on base. Last week, 21-year-old Spec. Jacob Ashton was found dead on post. Ashton enlisted in 2021 and was deployed to Iraq in 2023.