{"id":15133,"date":"2009-10-20T07:38:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15133"},"modified":"2011-05-20T20:29:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T00:29:48","slug":"1st-armored-div-soldier-killed-on-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15133","title":{"rendered":"1st Armored Div soldier killed on leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sporkmaster sent us a link to the story about a 20-year-old soldier named Cody Ryan Patterson, who was murdered while back home on leave from Iraq. The soldier happens to be the nephew of a blogger at <a href=\"http:\/\/theragblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/mariann-g-wizard-danger-found-code-blue.html\">The Rag Blog<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailysentinel.com\/news\/content\/gen\/ap\/TX_Soldiers_Shooting_Death.html\">Daily Sentinel<\/a> tells the story;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hill County Sheriff Jeffrey Lyons said Pvt. Cody Ryan Patterson, 20, suffered an apparent gunshot wound to his chest at a home in Blum, about 40 miles north of Waco. He was pronounced dead early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A Hill County jail spokesman said April Thompson, 25, of Odessa, was charged with manslaughter Sunday after she was arrested in Glen Rose, about 30 miles west of Blum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Patterson was assigned to the 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, TX according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATED: <\/strong> I have added a few more links with more <a href=\"http:\/\/freedomremembered.com\/index.php\/pvt-cody-ryan-patterson\/\">information<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tributes.com\/show\/Pvt.-Patterson-87001595\"> obituaries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not sure when this was posted but here is a update in the case that ended in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswest9.com\/story\/12563411\/odessa-woman-makes-plea-deal-in-connection-with-the-shooting-death-of-central-texas-soldier?redirected=true\">plea deal <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAn Odessa woman makes a plea deal in the shooting death of a central Texas soldier.<\/p>\n<p>24-year-old April Danielle Thompson was sentenced to six years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson says she accidentally shot 20-year old Cody Ryan Patterson in October of 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sporkmaster sent us a link to the story about a 20-year-old soldier named Cody Ryan Patterson, &hellip; <a title=\"1st Armored Div soldier killed on leave\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15133\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1st Armored Div soldier killed on leave<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}