Tracy Perkins
Tracy Perkins (?1971) is a Sergeant First Class (reduced in rank by court martial to Staff Sergeant) in the U.S. Army.
On 3 January 2004, he forced, at gunpoint, civilian plumbers Zaidoun Hassoun, 19, and Marwan Fadel to leap from a road bridge in Samarra, Iraq, into the waters of the River Tigris below. The cousins Hassoun and Fadel had been caught by a U.S. checkpoint after curfew. Fadel managed to reach the riverbank, but claims that he saw Hassoun drown and that the family later retrieved and buried the body.
On 8 January 2005, a military court in Fort Hood, Texas, USA, acquitted Perkins of manslaughter but convicted him of aggravated assault and obstruction of justice. He received a prison term of six months and a reduction in rank.
The trial of the OIC, First Lieutenant Jack Saville, has been postponed until what the family claims is Hassoun's corpse can be exhumed and examined.