SAVANNAH, Ga. AP – An Army private has been charged with slaying a fellow soldier, his former barracks roommate whose body was found by a dirt road near the Savannah River just before the Fourth of July weekend, police said Thursday.

Police said Pvt. Sylvester Denmark Horton shot Spc. Necco McCraw, left the slain soldier’s 1-year-old son stranded by a busy highway and used McCraw’s credit card to buy food at a fast-food restaurant shortly after he was killed.