Friends, military shocked at 'classic American''s attack
The Associated Press
CLINTON, Md. Ÿ The soldier accused of killing one comrade and injuring 18 more in a sniper attack was ''a classic young American'' who stayed out of trouble as a youth and in the military, neighbors and the Army said yesterday.
The alleged predawn sniper attack on 1,300 soldiers is as uncharacteristic of Sgt. William Joseph Kreutzer as is a rape charge pending against his father, one friend said.
''I would take him as my own son,'' said Ralph Schreiner, recalling a young man who wanted nothing more than to go into the military and serve his country.
''He was a classic young American boy that anyone would love to have as their neighbor or son,'' Schreiner said. ''He was never in trouble.''
Kreutzer, 26, is being held in a military jail.