Authorities: Marine confessed to killing wife

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — A Marine charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife had confessed to the killing in a 911 call, police said Tuesday.

Cpl. Cody Daniel Richardson, 22, of Carroll, N.H., was charged in the death of his 21-year-old wife, Jessy, Jacksonville police said. He was held under a $1 million bond in the Onslow County jail.l

Chief Michael Yaniero told a news conference that Richardson confessed to a 911 operator that he strangled his wife, but an autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death.

Yaniero said officers went to the couple’s apartment Monday and found the Marine officer outside and the woman’s body inside.

Authorities said the couple had an argument that resulted in her death and it appeared the woman had been dead for up to two days.

Lejeune Marine charged with murder

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A North Carolina-based Marine has been charged in the early morning shooting deaths of two civilians.

Authorities arrested Lance Cpl. Jarrell Damont Wilson, 22, of Wayne, Mich., on Friday and charged him with two counts of murder. He also faces prior charges of carrying a concealed gun and possession of a stolen firearm, according to court records. He is scheduled to appear in court on those charges Sept. 15.

A police officer patrolling the area of Onslow Drive, where the shootings occurred, heard gunfire about 2:20 a.m., said Jacksonville Police Chief Michael Yaniero. When police responded to the parking lot behind the popular nightclub Hooligan’s, they found Gabriel Ape, 24, and Christopher Watts, 23, with “apparent gunshot wounds,” Yaniero said. Both men died at the scene.