Ex-soldier recorded fatally shooting service dog found dead

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Ex-soldier recorded fatally shooting service dog found dead
Updated 4:33 pm, Sunday, May 7, 2017


FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina police say they're investigating the possible suicide of an Army veteran charged with shooting her service dog as she laughed.

Fayetteville Police Lt. Todd Joyce said Sunday investigators believe that 23-year-old Marinna Rollins killed herself. Joyce declined to explain what evidence detectives found. He says police were called to her apartment early Sunday after her body was found by friends.

Rollins and 25-year-old Jarren Heng were charged last month with cruelty to animals after investigators say they tied the dog to a tree and shot it multiple times with a rifle. Cumberland County District Attorney Clark Reaves said the two could be heard laughing on a video recording they made as the dog was killed.

Court documents show Rollins received a medical retirement from the Army in January.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Ex-soldier-recorded-fatally-shooting-service-dog-11128059.php

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Earlier story: 'Charges: Veteran tied up therapy dog, shot it dead while her boyfriend filmed'

By CRIMESIDER STAFF CBS/AP April 26, 2017, 11:55 AM


FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- An Army veteran in North Carolina has been charged with tying her therapy dog to a tree and shooting it five times while her soldier boyfriend filmed it, according to the Fayetteville Observer.

Jail records show 23-year-old Marinna Rollins was arrested Tuesday and charged with cruelty to animals.

The Fayetteville Observer reports that warrants say she and the soldier took Rollins' PTSD therapy dog to a wooded area where Rollins shot the dog at close range, killing it. The dog was buried in a shallow grave.

More:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/charges-veteran-tied-up-therapy-dog-shot-it-dead-while-her-boyfriend-filmed/

[uppityperson]

2. What a sad story

[TDale313]

3. Sad and messed up story all the way around.

She clearly was an incredibly damaged person. Sad she couldn't get the help she obviously needed. Sad the dog paid the cost.

[cstanleytech]

5. Makes me wonder though if she was damaged before she went into the military or was it due to

something that happened to her while she was in it that caused it but still sad story overall.

[TDale313]

8. I've wondered that too. n/t

[Averagegrunt]

33. Before

Both of the turds in this case are relatively new to military I know the male has been in for 2 years or less.

[orleans]

4. guess i'm not feeling too charitable tonight

(from op)
"Rollins and 25-year-old Jarren Heng were charged last month with cruelty to animals after investigators say they tied the dog to a tree and shot it multiple times with a rifle. Cumberland County District Attorney Clark Reaves said the two could be heard laughing on a video recording they made as the dog was killed. "

she was a fucking demented loon and so is the boyfriend.

[denbot]

6. Shooting her dog was a terrible act.

But if she was suffering from PTSD, I'm inclined to give her a bit of a pass.
May she rest in peace.

[TDale313]

9. Sorry, no pass for that kind of violence.

I'm sad she didn't get the help she clearly needed, but no excuses ever for that kind of cruelty.

[joshdawg]

14. Yes! This!

[narnian60]

15. +1

[adigal]

31. No. No pass. Never a pass for hurting something helpless. I am a dog rescuer

and I would have voted to tie her to a tree and shoot her if I was on a jury where she did this. Truth.

And a therapy service dog?? They are the best dogs in the world. I have zero sympathy for this sociopath. She is the kind of person who gives the military a bad name.

[jazzcat23]

7. These are the results

of war. It turns people into killing machines and some of them, clearly, like to kill. Well, I never feel too charitable when I see this stuff. I hope these two get locked up indefinitely, which will never happen. We have no decent laws on the books for animal abusers. Just fines and a slap on the wrist. Well, I would love to see these two tied up to a tree and film them getting their knees shot off, their achilles tendons sliced, and their elbows smashed into splinters...and watch them bleed to death, as long as it takes. They want abuse, we can give it to them.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

24. "I would love to see ... their achilles tendons sliced, and their elbows smashed into splinters...."

?

These are the results ... of war. It turns people into killing machines and some of them, clearly, like to kill. Well, I never feel too charitable when I see this stuff. I hope these two get locked up indefinitely, which will never happen. We have no decent laws on the books for animal abusers. Just fines and a slap on the wrist. Well, I would love to see these two tied up to a tree and film them getting their knees shot off, their achilles tendons sliced, and their elbows smashed into splinters...and watch them bleed to death, as long as it takes. They want abuse, we can give it to them.

Your dislike of cruelty is, uh, noted.

[Averagegrunt]

34. She didn't go

To war and she was a type of military journalist. Her only deployment was to Korea. I could be wrong though wouldn't be the first time.

[Baconator]

37. She's an E-2 in that first photo...

Basically continue breathing and you make it in a few months.

Can't imagine she did much of anything.

I am having difficulty imaging any circumstance that would lead to anything to justify that level of evil.

[Averagegrunt]

41. She

Was just fucked up from the get go...I blame her recruiter jk.

[Dorian Gray]

39. This is just as disturbing

as that veteran shooting her dog in cold blood. It is just as cruel.

What she did is horrible. And she killed herself on top of it. If she lived, I would have like to see her punished by law for killing a therapy dog. But she's dead, by her own hand.

MAYBE, if vets were offered proper services for PTSD and depression upon returning home from their tours, this wouldn't have happened in the first place.

[Averagegrunt]

40. She was disturbed well before she joined

She did a tour in Korea. That place sucks but that's because the rules are super strict it had little to do with her veteran status.

[Blazesweetie]

42. Awful and sad

Hate reading any kind of story where dogs are treated like this. I don't know what to think about this vet but I have a hard time excusing this type of action.

I was a civilian living as a spouse in Korea back in the 80s and it in no way "sucked." In fact, it was very nice. South Korea, at least in the Seoul region, was quite cosmopolitan back then and they treated the soldiers fairly well from what I could tell. My husband (now ex) was a low-level enlisted guy. I also worked at a neighboring Air Force Base and again I thought they did pretty well - affordable off-base housing, pretty good quality of life over all. Not sure what it's like now.

[aeromanKC]

10. And the Blood on W. and Cheney continue

may they rot in Hell!!!!!

[John1956PA]

18. In "Fahreheit 9/11," a man places the dead body of a young child in an ox cart and cries out . . . .

Last edited Mon May 8, 2017, 03:38 PM - Edit history (1)

"What crime did this baby commit?"

The "shock and awe" of the 2003 Iraq invasion of Iraq killed countless civilian Iraqis. The PTSD suffered by our troops lingers. And Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction.

I have not read about the service history of the veteran in this story who apparently took her life. I am thinking that she served in Afghanistan where she experienced the horrors of combat.


POST UPDATE ON 05-08-2017 AT 3:35 PM: As pointed out in the reply below, the veteran did not serve in the Middle East. Her overseas service consisted of four months in Korea.

[JudyM]

22. Shrub and Cheney never brought to justice. So many lives destroyed.

Plus the deadly destabilization of that whole region that's continuing to cost so many lives, and cost so much $. Such an immense waste of taxpayer dollars that could have gone a long way toward saving and improving lives here and addressing illness and injustice around the world.
Effing rethugs.

[Marengo]

28. So far as I have read, her overseas service was limited to 4 months in Korea. No combat.

[John1956PA]

30. Thanks for posting. You are correct. Four months in Korea. Not Combat.

The news reports state that she suffered a traumatic event in Korea:

From the report at http://popularmilitary.com/exclusive-owner-dog-slain-veteran-soldier-speaks-really-happened/ :

After completing basic training in 2014, Rollins failed out of Airborne School and was given assignment orders to Korea, which is regarded as a less-than-desirable duty station. In September of 2014, Matt and Rollins were married while she was on her leave.

In January of 2015, a traumatic event forced Rollins to return to the United States after only four months in Korea. During this period, she was diagnosed with a series of mental disorders, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, bipolar disorder and other ailments. She was later medically discharged at 80% disability, according to Matt.

She had mental issues which were not traceable to any military action in the middle east. She and her boyfriend were apparently intoxicated at the time they killed the dog.

[C Moon]

11. Poor pup. :(

[BamaRefugee]

12. My question about PTSD is...

...who the fuck is treating all the people we have bombed, shot at, napalmed, killed family members in front of, etc., in Iraq and Afghanistan and every other place we go in the world?????
Those people's very lives and ways of life are blown to smithereens, in a place that's already poor, and lacking in many basic things we take for granted, but it's the Americans WHO ARE "SUFFERING"????
The Americans who go back to base for pizza and KFC and a shower when the actual inhabitants go back to a pile of rubble, no food, no water, not a bed to lie in???
Do any of these people see psychiatrists, go to group therapy, receive money to help pay for recovery??? I've never seen a story about it if they do!

I'm not being anti-USA, anti-Armed Forces, I'm just fed up with people who had every advantage in weaponry, logistics, supplies, clean uniforms, rations, etc apparently being the ONLY freaking VICTIMS in these things.

What did this American girl "see" that "changed her" so much that native 3,8,12 0r 18 year old girls don't see daily in a war zone ???

Sorry for the rant, but this drives me nuts sometimes.

[Kittycow]

13. I'm ashamed to say that I never thought about this.

And it's so plain and clear. (In reference to the people that we blow up but we're the ones suffering. )

Thanks for bringing this up. It's really on my heart now and has changed my perspective.

[Scarsdale]

16. Good point

I grew up in England during WW11. A few years ago, I went to visit London with my adult children. There was a WW11 exhibition there, with an air raid shelter like the one we and all our neighbors had in the back yard. You could go in, listen to the sirens blaring, then the planes roaring overhead, hear the bombs whistling down. It all came back to me all these years later, and I started to cry, and had to leave. My aunt and uncle had three sons. After their houses were demolished (TWICE) and they lost everything, the boys were evacuated to Wales. My aunt died at 46 of cancer. I think the stress took her. They were in a community air raid shelter, came out to NOTHING left. You are correct, the people we are bombing now will have scars for many, many years possible forever.

[yardwork]

17. And we're surprised when the civilians join terrorist groups.

Why are we surprised?

[CanonRay]

21. Excellent point.

[milestogo]

35. Maybe its not what she saw, its what she did.

Seeing something horrendous you get over, with time. But doing something horrendous - that would cause some real damage to a person's soul.

[BamaRefugee]

45. Pretty sure from my reading...

...she had a desk job. But paper cuts can be traumatic.

[milestogo]

46. Combat can be traumatic.

But it doesn't seem like she experienced that kind of trauma. She was just a mess.

[Historic NY]

19. More to the story...

http://popularmilitary.com/exclusive-owner-dog-slain-veteran-soldier-speaks-really-happened/

[Judi Lynn]

20. Horrendous. Thanks for providing this information. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

25. Yeah, I'm thinking her brain blew some fuses before she ever enlisted...

[Kennah]

32. Thank you for this. I have zero sympathy for her. (n/t)

[Crabby Appleton]

43. Thanks for the updated info.

I'm disgusted by some of my fellow humans.

[peacebuzzard]

23. Those 2 images of the cuffed and tied up pit show the terror

That he endured prior to being shot dead. Those 2 individuals were gleefully torturing this trained and innocent service dog. No mercy. This is beyond horrible.

[Gamecock Lefty]

26. I give NO PASS to anyone who harms animals!

[mahina]

27. .

[PsychoBabble]

29. Good riddance.

If you mess with animals, little kids, ANYONE clearly weaker than you, you are a coward. Period.

[LeftyMom]

36. Is there a GoFundMe to buy the other dirtbag some ammo?

What's keeping him?

[tblue37]

38. They abused that poor dog before this. Look at his face. He is obviously scared. nt

[Coventina]

44. Buddhists believe in a special hell for those who abuse animals.

I hope she is there right now.