Husband wanted in killing of Fort Bragg soldier is dead after standoff
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Jason Earl Armstrong Jr. and surveillance video of Armstrong on July 1, 2016. (FBI)
The suspect in a homicide at Fort Bragg in North Carolina was found dead after a standoff with police in Phoenix, the FBI said Thursday.
Jason Earl Armstrong, 27, was wanted in the July 1 killing of his wife, a Fort Bragg soldier. The FBI said he was pronounced dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Wednesday night.
Armstrong was trying to elude cops when he barricaded himself in an apartment and refused to surrender, according to the Fayetteville Observer.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}After hours of negotiations, Phoenix police entered the apartment and found Armstrong’s body, the paper reported Thursday.
The FBI began looking for Armstrong after his wife’s body was found July 6 in their Fort Bragg home in Fayetteville.
Iris Armstrong had been stabbed and beaten, the paper reported.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The FBI said Armstrong was captured on a surveillance video using his wife’s debit card shortly after the murder.
Iris Armstrong was a human resources specialist assigned to the 189th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion of the 82nd Airborne Division Sustainment Brigade.