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Fort Lewis soldier stabbed to death

Jun-18-2007 » Filed Under: 5/2 SBCT

In the wake of recent casualties in Iraq comes word that a 5/2 SBCT soldier was stabbed to death on Post last Friday. The Army identified him today as Pvt. Timothy W. Crislip.

The Associated Press

FORT LEWIS, Wash. - Army officials identified a Stryker brigade soldier stabbed to death last week as Pvt. Timothy W. Crislip of Elmhurst, Ill., whose mother described him Monday as "an awesome young man."

Crislip died at Madigan Army Medical Center on Friday after being "stabbed by another soldier," Fort Lewis said in a news release. The other soldier was taken into custody but was not identified Monday.

Military police and the Army's criminal investigation division were reviewing the case. Additional details, including a motive, were not immediately available.

Crislip, 22, joined the Army on Aug. 12, 2003, a few months after graduating from Timothy Christian High School in Elmhurst.

He'd previously been assigned to Fort Campbell in Kentucky and Fort Jackson, S.C., before coming to Fort Lewis in April 2007.

"He had a heart of gold," said his mother, Linda Crislip, who lives in Crest Hill, Ill. "He loved easily." She received the news of her son's death Friday.

Timothy Crislip served a year in Iraq ending in April 2006 with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 44th Air Defense Battalion at Fort Campbell.

He was currently a member of Company B, 402nd Brigade Support Battalion, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, a new Stryker brigade being developed at Fort Lewis, a post south of Tacoma.

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