Why was a Fort Carson Soldier recently arrested?”
Fort Carson Soldier Arrested in Shooting Death of 19-Year-Old Posted: May 10, 2009 08:37 AM COLORADO SPRINGS – An arrest in Sunday morning’s deadly shooting at a Colorado Springs apartment complex. Police have arrested Thomas Woolly, a 24-year-old Fort Carson soldier, for manslaughter. Police say he shot and killed a 19-year-old Lisa Baumann of Colorado Springs. The El Paso County Coroner’s office completed an autopsy Monday on Baumann and determined the cause of death to be a gun shot wound and the manner of death to be homicide. The incident happened just before 3 a.m. Sunday at the Cheyenne Crest apartments on Westmeadow Drive. Police tell NEWSCHANNEL 13 the call was for an accidental shooting. When they entered the apartment, they found the woman dead from an apparent gunshot to the neck. Woolly also injured himself by unintentionally grazing his leg with a stray bullet. Police say there were several people inside the apartment at the time of the shooting, and are now questioning t
A Fort Carson soldier has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in a weekend shooting that left one woman dead. It is the sixth homicide in Colorado since 2007 linked to a Fort Carson soldier. Sgt. Scott Schwall said 24-year-old Thomas Woolly was arrested Sunday in connection with the shooting at an apartment in the 4000 block of Westmeadow Drive shortly before 3 that morning. Police said officers arrived at the apartment to find that 19-year-old Lisa Baumann, from Colorado Springs, had been fatally shot. Police said Woolly had accidentally shot himself in the leg and was treated and released from a hospital for a minor injury.
