TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. Army soldier pleaded guilty to murder and kidnapping Monday in the killings of two fellow soldiers and abduction of their young daughter, officials said.
Spc. Ivette Davila entered the plea as her court-martial was about to begin at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, the Tacoma News-Tribune reported.
In exchange for her guilty plea, the 24-year-old will no longer face a possible death sentence, the newspaper said.
Davila had been charged with premeditated murder in the March 2008 killings of Staff Sgt. Timothy Miller and his wife, Sgt. Randi J. Miller.
The Millers were killed in their Parkland, Wash., home.
Their young daughter, kidnapped from the home, was later found unharmed. UPI
