“THEY WILL NEVER FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THOSE WOODS”!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT, PROSECUTORS SAY 26-YEAR-OLD KENNETH MAURICE QUICK JR. SHOT A DELTA FORCE SOLDIER AND AN ARMY VETERAN TO DEATH OVER A COCAINE DEAL AND DUMPED THEIR BODIES ON FORT BRAGG… AND A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS NOW SENTENCED HIM TO THREE LIFE TERMS PLUS 83 YEARS IN PRISON.
A federal judge handed down three life sentences to Kenneth Maurice Quick Jr., according to prosecutors.
The 26-year-old North Carolina man received an additional 83 years in prison.
The sentence follows his prosecution in connection with the killings of an active-duty soldier and a military veteran.
In May, Quick was convicted of eight federal counts in relation to the December 2020 killings, Stars and Stripes reported.
The convictions included first-degree murder.
Quick was also found guilty of drug conspiracy.
Jurors additionally convicted him of obstruction of justice.
The victims were Master Sgt. William LaVigne III and former soldier Timothy Dumas Sr.
LaVigne was 37 years old.
He served as a member of the Army’s elite Delta Force unit.
Dumas was 44 years old.
He was a U.S. Army veteran.
Both men were found dead off a road located on Fort Bragg, the Fayetteville Observer reported.
Fort Bragg is an Army base located near Fayetteville.
Quick is accused of dumping the men’s bodies on the military base after shooting them to death.
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Prior to their deaths, Quick was planning to buy cocaine from LaVigne, according to prosecutors.
Dumas was accused of giving the cocaine to LaVigne.
Prosecutors said Dumas accompanied LaVigne to supply Quick with the drugs.
Quick and LaVigne met “at a trap house,” according to prosecutors.
At that location, prosecutors said Quick “remorselessly shot” LaVigne “in the back five times.”
Then Quick made Dumas drive to a “remote wooded area” on the Army base to help him get rid of LaVigne’s body, according to prosecutors.
But the truck Dumas had been driving got stuck in sand, prosecutors said.
Quick fatally shot Dumas in the head and in his back, prosecutors said.
A day later, Quick and alleged coconspirators drove the truck to a different county, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
They set the truck ablaze, prosecutors said.
And Quick is accused of killing a third person about two months later during a drug deal, prosecutors said.
The killings of LaVigne and Dumas are discussed in a book titled The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, according to Stars and Stripes.
“This cold‑blooded murderer will never see the light of day again,” U.S. Attorney Ellis Boyle, of the Eastern District of North Carolina, said in a Wednesday, August 27 news release.
“Understand this, if you commit depraved violence on federal property: we will hunt you down, we will prosecute you, and we will lock you away for a very long time. No excuses. No escape. When you take lives, we will come for you without hesitation. You get life for taking a life.”
“Quick likely believed he evaded authorities in killing two men and discarding their bodies on Fort Bragg property,” Reid Davis, the FBI Special Agent in Charge in North Carolina, said in a statement.
“He clearly didn’t consider the dedication and expertise of FBI Special Agents and the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division, who followed the evidence and put together a meticulous timeline of Quick’s crimes.”
Quick’s defense attorney didn’t immediately return a request for comment from Us.
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