Soldier charged in shooting death of infant

Soldier charged in shooting death of infant

An Army soldier in Kansas pleaded not guilty last week to charges in connection with the April shooting death of his infant son. Last week, Spc. Peyton D.

Creel, assigned to the Combined Arms Command Law Enforcement Activity, Special Troops Battalion, at Fort Leavenworth, is facing a court-martial after his child was shot in the head with a rifle.

“SPC Peyton Creel is charged with one specification of murder and one specification of involuntary manslaughter for the murder of his infant child on April 28, 2026, at his residence on Fort Leavenworth,” said Michelle McCaskill, the U.S. Army Office of Special Trial Counsel’s Director of Communications, in a Monday email.

“The charges are allegations and SPC Creel is presumed innocent unless proven guilty,” she added.