William Lavigne II, 37, was found dead in the training area of Fort Bragg on December 2 alongside the body of Army veteran Timothy Dumas, 44 New reports reveal that Lavigne was. Jane never saw Vallejo doing drugs, and unlike Lavigne, he didnt run around getting arrested, but she remembers him being at the center of a social scene that she describes as toxic. This was at the tail end of the Obama years, on the cusp of Trumps election. Scanlons testimony was that she had told her special-victims counsel about seeing the Green Berets widow, albeit months after the fact, and that she had instructed the SVC to inform the prosecution of her belated recollection. But the warehouse had no plumbing; there was only a portable toilet out back. Someone tampered with the crime scene or he's lying," said Paul Ciolino, president of the International Association of Forensic Criminologists, after reviewing documents from the case. His death certificate states his last place of residence was in Hope Mills. We want to hear it. On March 21, 2018, at his Anhinga Drive home, LaVigne shot to death his friend, Army Sgt. It was him and Maj. Stacey Cohen.. Investigators have asked anyone with information on the case to contact the FBI or Army Criminal Investigation Command. William J. Lavigne II, 37, was one of two men found dead Dec. 2, in a training area on Fort Bragg, N.C., the Army said. According to Lavigne's statement to police, Leshikar began acting irrationally on the car ride back to Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was also suffering from a traumatic brain injury due to an improvised explosive device detonating near him, which was why he was assigned to a desk job at Fort Bragg. Mr. Thats being a girl at a bar., According to text messages she sent a girlfriend the next day, Scanlon was drunk and flirted with him. But she didnt consent to what later ensued, she immediately added. While awaiting trial, Vallejo had stood down as an active-duty operator, attached to USASOC as an ignominious SURPLUS SLDR, according to his enlistment-record brief. He was a resident of Pinehurst at the time of his death. Poppe says there was no connection between the two cases. I was too scared to go to stores, the gym, and other crowded places. Its not even clear what agency, military or civilian, is investigating. Her superiors didnt know about the former, and she herself had reported the latter. . The police were called, and Vallejo left without incident. She passed a covered motorcycle trailer with a looming portrait of a slain Delta Force soldier printed on the side. I asked him if I could take a picture in front of their logo to send to my instructor, she says. The trial record shows that Vallejos defense called eight additional witnesses. The apparent lapse in memory had given Poppe an opening to hammer away at her credibility. Scanlon was on the stand for eight hours, she says. RIP, bro., One year later, the authorities have identified no suspects, arrested no perpetrators, and disclosed nothing about the evidence theyve gathered to date. Lavigne was due in Cumberland County District Court next week in connection with a hit-and-run charge from last February, the newspaper reported. On Dec. 2, 2020, Master Sgt. I firmly believe that I had to be his victim because I was strong enough to report him., She never got the chance to lay any of this on Vallejo, or the court. Leshikar's family alleged that Lavigne was never administered a toxicology screen to test him for alcohol or narcotics in his system following the shooting. This would have been in violation of regulations that prevent the military from excluding crime victims from the trials of their alleged perpetrators, and USASOC says it didnt happen. Im not a police officer. I looked at my daddy's face and I knew he was gone, the girl told her family members. As Rolling Stone reported in a previous piece, "The Fort Bragg Murders," in March 2018 right around the time that military prosecutors took control of Vallejo's trial Lavigne shot and killed a Green Beret in the living room of his house in Fayetteville without suffering the slightest legal consequences.". PART OF AUDACY NEWS. Sgt Lavigne was a Green Beret and Delta Force member. According to a source who spoke to SOFREP on the condition of anonymity, Army investigators discovered that the truck belonged to 37-year-old William J. Lavigne II, an Army Master Sergeant. Lavigne was a member of the Army's elite counter-terrorism unit, Delta Force, and deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. I wanted this all behind me.. Scanlon derisively refers to the latter four as groupies. A Fayetteville police detective used the same language in his report on her case. Let me know when your [sic] home safe. To this he appended a heart emoji and a kissy-face. Guys like Vallejo and Lavigne are constantly told that theyre the elite, the best of the best, the ultimate badasses, and when it comes to killing and capturing people overseas, they are. He was seven inches taller than her and 70 pounds heavier. When her contract was up in 2019, she resigned from the Army. Poppe says he cant recall the substance of Lavignes testimony, but discloses that after the court-martial concluded, he took him on as a client, too. The Coast x Coast Foundation raised $450,943 in tax-free contributions from 2016 to 2020, according to IRS records. Scanlon maintains that her case was mishandled. Between the summer of 2018 and the fall of 2020, Lavignes behavior became increasingly erratic and dangerous. Poppe says he take[s] exception to this absurd characterization. A brief report by CBS 17 in Raleigh-Durham on Sept. 30 named Vallejo as an N.C. Im still spooked. She read USASOCs statement in The Fort Bragg Murders that some unspecified adverse administrative action had been pending against Lavigne at the time of his death. She vividly recalls the day that one Delta soldier, a Coast x Coast guy (neither Vallejo nor Lavigne), came in from an operation outside the wire. In 2018, after a drug- and booze-filled bender, Lavigne (left) shot and killed his best friend, Leshikar (right), in front of their two young daughters. Vallejo is a notable exception. Thereafter, things moved very slowly toward a trial. And hes sitting there decked out. That was a crazy ethical mistake.. If her aim was to avoid disciplinary action or professional embarrassment, she could have simply said nothing and no one would have been the wiser. Additionally, Lavigne never stated or implied that he moved the screw driver or any weapon after shooting SFC Leshikar.. We all knew him, says Roy Lynn Parker, 35. The death certificate lists LaVignes cause of death as multiple gunshot wounds. William LaVigne II, 37, and Army veteran Timothy Dumas Sr., 44, is. The nurse who did the rape kit noted in her report that Scanlons eyes were red and her makeup was smeared. William J Lavigne II, 37, was identified as one of two men found dead at a Fort Bragg training area Credit: Army 4 Sgt First Class Mark Leshikar's family have now said Lavigne, 37, allegedly shot Leshikar dead during a heated argument They were officers in the Judge Advocate Generals Corps, assigned to the Special Forces. As to any potential discharge, were not able to comment due to Privacy Act protections., When Connecting Vets reached out to CID on Fort Bragg regarding the deaths of Leshikar, Lavigne and Dumas, spokesperson Christopher Grey said: All I am releasing is it is a homicide investigation. None are able to say why the shooting took place, but they all remember Lavigne. Why didnt you tell anyone about the witness that came around the corner? she remembers him asking. She said that when she opened the door, and her daddy was mad and walking towards uncle Billy and uncle Billy came around and shot him, and then my daddy did this, her family described. For her part, Scanlon tried hard not to show any emotion in public, and accepted the jurys July 2018 decision with stoicism. No reporters attended the subsequent court-martial, and no transcript was made of the proceedings. Lavinge's statement to law enforcement at the scene was that Leshikar had attacked him with a screw driver. She said that this friend got in his vehicle and was driving to Lavigne's house to help sort things out when he allegedly got a second, frantic phone call from Lavigne saying he had killed Leshikar. Its hundreds of pages long, but does not include the testimony of witnesses or the arguments the lawyers made. Two ABC officers went to the location to check it out. F Over those five years, it paid out grants totaling $187,143. The DA treated the killing as a justifiable homicide and Lavigne was not charged with a crime. The jury should have been brought to the location at night, she says. Four months before the night in question, Cumberland Countys Alcoholic Beverage Control received a tip from a police officer in Hope Mills, another satellite town of Fort Bragg, about a party occurring in downtown [Fayetteville] in which donations would be accepted, an ABC agent wrote in an affidavit attached to a warrant to search the warehouse and seize alcohol. In his heart, he was all for defending people who could not defend themselves, his mother said about her late son. Lavigne retained him while still under Army investigation into the shooting death of Leshikar, he says. What the prosecution has to say, you already know, she remembers the SVC telling her. Poppe does not find it remarkable, he says, that he simultaneously represented two members of the most elite military unit in the United States, one suspected of murder, the other accused of rape. Master Sgt. Efforts to reach these people by phone were unsuccessful. Starting in 2019, victims who testify get a copy of the court-martial record, including audio, whether it was an acquittal or conviction.. He took that and he always was the one who would protect people who were being bullied in school because he was a big man.. At the time, he was so depressed, anxious, guilt-stricken, and strung out on drugs that its a wonder he was able to put on his full-dress uniform that morning. !For Educational Purposes Only! "The shooter's own words bury his ass because there is no screw driver. The trial began on a Monday morning. So Leshikar's death remains in conflict. Everything revolved around drinking booze and hooking up. When Scanlon learns that the audio was destroyed, she unexpectedly breaks down in tears. It was drink, sex, drink, sex. Other than that, he says, I dont think youre going to get any comment from anybody around here.. And no one seems to know quite why. But I have accepted this new path. I was with them for years, constantly, she says. Investigators are seeking to create a timeline of. The blond 25-year-old from suburban Phoenix had secured a lieutenants slot in the storied 82nd Airborne Division thanks to the good offices of one of her ROTC instructors at the University of Arizona. Reached through his lawyer, Vallejo declined to comment for this story. Around the same time, he went on a cross-country ride with the Coast x Coast motorcycle club, starting out of Los Angeles and bound for Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Because I had been in for 18 months. And I was in law enforcement for all of the years that he was growing up so I was very hard on my kids, tried to make them strong and independent. I represented him in Cumberland County.. The Special Forces of the U.S. Army are based out of Fort Bragg, as is the powerful and secretive Joint Special Operations Command, making this spot, inland of the Eastern Seaboard, the central node in the United States global special-operations complex. There have not been any arrest(s) and we are not releasing any additional details at this time, Shelly Lynch, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Charlotte, said in an email this week. While justice for the apparent killings of Lavigne and Dumas has yet to be delivered, another family is also seeking justice, and speaking out about another killing in 2018 in which Lavigne was involved. The adjacent alley was full of junked cars. More than she questions Vallejos acquittal or the jurys decision, Scanlon simply wants to know what happened at the court-martial. For reasons that remain a mystery, Lavigne had pulled out the .40-caliber sidearm he carried and double-tapped his best buddy right in front of two horrified little girls, his daughter and Leshikars. Werent there plenty of people you could have called out to? She wasnt being truthful about her encounter with Cris Vallejo., They should not have allowed my lawyer to testify against me, Scanlon says. Dumass cause of death is listed as gunshot wounds to the chest and head.. I was resolved to be stoic no matter what, because I knew I had stood up for myself as much as possible. They said Lavigne's harboring a fugitive felony charge could be used to kick him out of Special Forces and discharge him from the military. LaVigne was supposed to be in Cumberland County District Court on Jan. 15 for a Feb. 17, 2020, hit-and-run charge, court documents say. One of the four Delta Force soldiers present that night was a 33-year-old from Michigan, Master Sgt. 1LT Scanlon never told me that she remembered seeing a female the Green Berets red-haired widow who may have witnessed a portion of the alleged assault., It looked like Scanlon was lying, or at a minimum, misremembering what had happened. Subsequently, the Army swapped out her SVC four separate times. Anecdote, family member was [redacted] group, got recruited to Delta, turned them down.