Mughsots of Darius Demarcus Nobles and Darion Lequan Brown via Killeen PD
After a six-year investigation, authorities have made arrests in the brutal murder of Fort Hood soldier Gregory Wedel-Morales.
The assistant chief of the Killeen Police Department, Alex Gearhart, announced that two suspects with ties to a gang have been arrested for the 2019 murder of Pvt. Gregory Wedel-Morales.
Darion Lequan Brown, 27, and Darius Demarcus Nobles, 28, were arrested and charged with the murder of Wedel-Morales.
Stars and Stripes reported that Wedel-Morales went missing in August of 2019, and it wasn’t until 10 months later that his remains were found in a field in Killeen, Texas.
An autopsy revealed the soldier was shot in the head, but initial investigations yielded no arrests until new phone records shed light on the case.
#BREAKING Two suspects affiliated with a gang were ordered to “put in work” and murder Fort Hood Soldier Gregory Wedel-Morales in 2019, an affidavit states. https://t.co/L0LkIu4GCj pic.twitter.com/dmuKEHXqcZ
— KWTX News 10 (@kwtx) February 25, 2026
Per KWTX:
Two suspects affiliated with a gang were ordered to “put in work” and murder Fort Hood Soldier Gregory Wedel-Morales in late 2019, an arrest warrant affidavit states.
The Killeen Police Department on Feb. 25, 2025, announced the arrests of Darius Demarcus Nobles, 28; and Darion Lequan Brown, 27, in the death of the Army soldier. Both men will be charged with murder, police said.
The announcement marked a significant development in a Central Texas cold case that remained unsolved for years.
Wedel-Morales was reported missing on Aug. 19, 2019.
Authorities arrested Nobles and Brown after reviewing Wedel-Morales’ phone records.
One of the last calls made to Wedel-Morales’ phone was from a phone that was previously stolen by Brown.
Detectives then questioned Brown about the call, and according to court documents, “Brown stated that he and Nobles are affiliated with a gang and they were instructed to kill Wedel-Morales as a way to ‘put in work.”
In recent years, Fort Hood has been plagued by soldiers going missing and being murdered.
In 2020, Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen was killed in the armory room at Fort Hood by Spc. Aaron Robinson.
Guillen was reported missing for over two months before her dismembered body was discovered near the Leon River.
Robinson committed suicide before authorities were able to take him in custody, and his girlfriend, Cecily Aguilar, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for her role in covering up Guillen’s murder.
Cecily Aguilar, the lone surviving suspect in Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen’s murder, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. https://t.co/dYiBp7cIvH pic.twitter.com/NhltheuTEh
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) August 14, 2023
According to PBS, Fort Hood has the highest rates of murder and sexual assault out of all bases in the Army.
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