---
title: "Fort Bliss NCO charged with murdering former soldier"
date: "2021-02-13"
modified: "2021-02-13"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/fort-bliss-nco-murder-soldier/"
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  - "Army"
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  - "Military Branches"
  - "News"
  - "United States"
tags:
  - "death"
  - "justice"
  - "Northern Command"
---

# Fort Bliss NCO charged with murdering former soldier

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ap_919753084845_wide-4d5d2cc09f5abdeb3129d6892fa376dfb5d00e1d-4.jpg>)
*Cars wait to enter Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, in 2014.*

A Fort Bliss sergeant stands charged with shooting a former Bliss soldier to death during a bar brawl last week.

The City of El Paso, Texas, [announced](<https://www.elpasotexas.gov/assets/Press-Releases/Police/2021/02/212-039015-Update-Murder-in-Cincinnati-District.pdf>) on Thursday that local police had arrested 23-year-old Sgt. Marcus Lamar Hill for shooting 26-year-old Darion Marquez Williams during a fistfight in the parking lot of a downtown bar.

Police arrested Hill and another NCO, Sgt. Brandon Rishad King, at a traffic stop shortly after Williams was pronounced dead at a local hospital, the release [stated](<https://www.elpasotexas.gov/assets/Press-Releases/Police/2021/02/212-039015-Update-Murder-in-Cincinnati-District.pdf>).

King was charged with unlawfully carrying a handgun and released, while Hill is currently being held on $750,000 bond, [according](<https://www.elpasotexas.gov/assets/Press-Releases/Police/2021/02/212-039015-Update-Murder-in-Cincinnati-District.pdf>) to the release.

Fort Bliss spokeswoman Lt. Col. Allie Payne [confirmed](<https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/02/13/fort-bliss-soldier-charged-murder-shooting-death-of-former-soldier.html>) to Military.com that Hill and King were both assigned to Bliss and that Williams had completed active-duty this past January.

"This behavior is an affront to the values of the U.S. Army," Payne [told](<https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/02/13/fort-bliss-soldier-charged-murder-shooting-death-of-former-soldier.html>) Military.com in a statement. "Our sympathies are with those affected by this terrible incident."

Hill is the third Fort Bliss soldier to face murder charges in recent months.

The court-martial of 24-year-old Pfc. Luis A. Morales-Sanchez [began](<https://taskandpurpose.com/news/fort-bliss-soldier-murder-charges/>) in late January for a laundry list of offenses, including two counts of murder and eight counts of assault.

In October, Capt. Clevy Muchette Nelson-Royster, 27, was arrested in connection to the murder of Capt. Malcolm Xavier Perry [as the result of a vehicle ramming](<https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-captain-arrested-murder-fort-bliss/>) earlier that month.

## Author
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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