Lockhart received bad conduct discharge

Courtney L. Lockhart was in trouble in the military long before his name surfaced as the alleged killer of Auburn freshman Lauren Burk.

In May 2006 at Fort Carson, Colo., he grabbed what appeared to be a firearm and pointed it in the direc-tion of a non-commissioned female officer, court documents say.
“I’ll blow your head off …,” the documents say.

On the same day, he also had an altercation with an Army specialist.

Lockhart, from Smiths Station, was convicted of assault, two counts of communicating a threat and one count of use of marijuana. He was sentenced to seven months confinement at Fort Sill, Okla., reduced in rank to E-1 and given a bad conduct discharge.

Before that, Lockhart served in Iraq from Aug. 4, 2004, through July 23, 2005, earning the Combat Action Badge for his service with the 7th Infantry Division.

The marijuana charge was unrelated to the other charges.

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