The Bales, Robert

Early life

Robert Bales was born in Norwood , Ohio , USA . He was the youngest of five brothers in the family. In 1991, he graduated from Norwood High School, and enrolled in College of Mount St. Joseph ”, where I studied for two years. In 1993, Robert transferred to Ohio State University , Department of Economics. In 1996, Bales graduated, and received a degree in economics ^{[1] [2]} .

After college, he took a job at a financial company in Columbus , Ohio. ^[3] The director of the firm was Michael Patterson, who was soon arrested and charged with financial fraud with a state pension fund worth more than $ 1.5 million. In these frauds, Beils was also partially involved, but the police never arrested him, since he disappeared from the city in September 2000. The case was closed for lack of evidence in November of that year ^[4] .

US Armed Forces

Robert Bales volunteered for the US Armed Forces in November 2001. According to relatives, he decided that it was his sacred duty, after the attacks of September 11 ^[5] .

He was ranked as the 2nd US Infantry Division . From December 2001 to March 2003, he trained and then served in the division headquarters at the Fort Lewis military base in Washington state . From March 20, 2003 to February 2004 he took part in the Iraq war . Then it was returned back to the USA. After that, he was again sent twice on business trips to Iraq. In 2006-2007 and 2009—2010. On January 28-29, 2007, he took part in an operation against more than 1,000 Iraqi Islamists in the city of Zarga in southwestern Iraq, in which he received a gunshot wound to his knee ^[6] . In total, in that battle, the Americans lost two soldiers killed and 25 wounded, and one of their drones was also shot down. Iraqi security forces lost 14 people dead and 80 wounded. As a result of the operation, more than 300 Islamists were killed, including their commander, 37-year-old Abdula-Zahra Kodim. Arrested more than 400 members of the armed group. After a business trip in 2010, Robert Bales was shell-shocked after a makeshift explosive device went off in his army jeep ^[7] .

On April 1, 2008, Robert Bales was promoted to senior sergeant for "exemplary military service." After 2010, he spent two years in the USA. After that, he was sent on a business trip to the US military base Camp Belambai in Kandahar , Afghanistan , which arrived on February 1, 2012. There he was appointed the head of the detachment that ensured the order and security of the internal perimeter of the military base ^[8] .

Problems with the law while serving in the US Armed Forces

In 2002, Robert Bales was arrested by the police for fighting in a drunken stupor because of a trifle with a casino guard located near the Fort Lewis military base. According to the court verdict, Bales paid a fine of $ 200, and attended anger management classes for about a month ^[9] .

In November 2008, he was also arrested by the police for a drunken brawl in a bar, but did not incur any penalties as the second participant in the brawl refused claims to Robert ^[10] .

On March 11, 2012, at 1:30 local time, Robert Bales, a moderate alcoholic drunk, dressed in the uniform of a US infantryman with body armor and night vision goggles, and armed with a 5.56 M4 assault rifle equipped with an M203 grenade launcher , and 9 mm semi-automatic pistol Beretta M9 , left the military base Camp Belambai . He headed to the nearest village of Alkozai, 2 kilometers north of the military base. There, he began to break into the homes of sleeping Afghans and conduct indiscriminate fire on them, as well as shoot from a grenade launcher. Sentries from the towers saw flashes of light and the sound of gunfire from the side of the village of Alkozai, but did nothing. After four people were shot dead in this village by Bales and six more were wounded in Alkozai, he calmly returned to his base at about 2:00 a.m. and continued drinking.

After half an hour, at 2:30 local time, Bales was still in the same form, but more drunk he again left the territory of the military base and headed to the village of Najiban, to which he reached at 3:00. There, Beils was the first to catch the eye of a 55-year-old farmer, Mohammad Daoud. The killer started knocking on the door, when the owner opened it, Bales instantly killed him with a shot from the M4 in the head. Then he went into the house and saw the frightened wife of Daoud and his six children, several times fired from a machine gun above their heads, and then left. The offender went to a neighboring house where the farmer Abdul Samad, his wife, sister, and cousin, as well as 8 children lived. The owner was not at home. Beyles broke into the house, after which he began to shoot accurately at people inside. Killing everyone except Samad’s 12-year-old son, he dragged the boy out into the yard, ordered him to kneel, and then killed him with a pistol in his mouth. After that, Bales set fire to their house and returned to base. Upon arrival, he was immediately disarmed and arrested.

On March 16, 2012, Bales was escorted through Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to a special penitentiary in Kansas for US military officers who committed serious and especially serious crimes ^[11] . In October 2012 he was transferred to a special prison at the Fort Lewis military base in Washington state, where he was a sergeant.

On March 23, 2012, he was charged with sixteen premeditated murders committed under aggravating circumstances, six cases of attempted murder, and nineteen cases of assault with a firearm. He was also accused of arson, drunkenness at the workplace, and unauthorized abandonment of the location of the unit while on duty ^{[12] [13]} .

On May 29, 2013, the court found Robert Beyles sane, based on the conclusion of the psychiatrists who examined the offender from November 5 to 13, 2012 ^[14] .

On June 5, 2013, Robert Bales made a deal with the prosecution and pleaded guilty to all the crimes he was charged with, and he also apologized to those gathered in the courtroom. The prosecutor, in turn, demanded instead of the death penalty for Bales, life imprisonment without the right to parole ^[15] .

On August 23, 2013, a court sentenced 40-year-old Robert Bales to life imprisonment without the right to parole. Relatives of some of the victims present in the courtroom were unhappy with the decision, and stated that Bales deserved the death penalty for his crimes ^[16] .

Starting August 26, 2013, Bales is serving a sentence in the United States Disciplinary Barracks maximum security prison in Kansas, USA.

• Massacre at Washington Navy Yard
• Massacre at Fort Bliss Military Base
• Shooting at Frankfurt Airport
• Massacre at Fort Hood military base (2009)

• US Army sergeant received life sentence for shooting 16 Afghans