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Reservist accused of killing former girlfriend

A Marine Corps reservist who served three tours of duty in Iraq was charged with murder after allegedly breaking through an apartment window and stabbing his former live-in girlfriend to death.

Lance Cpl. Eric Acevedo, 22, of Saginaw, Texas, was charged with one count of capital murder in the death of Mollieann Worden, 32, also of Saginaw.

Worden sustained multiple stab wounds with a knife early Saturday in the apartment she and Acevedo had shared until breaking up, police said. Acevedo was arrested and Worden was pronounced dead at the scene after police responded to 911 calls about 1:30 a.m.

Acevedo is a member of the Individual Ready Reserve and a former machine gunner with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, in Twentynine Palms, Calif., said Master Sgt. Ronald Spencer, a spokesman for the Marine Corps Mobilization Command in Kansas City, Mo.

He deployed to Iraq three times between February 2004 and February 2007 and joined the IRR in June 2007. He has earned at least eight military medals or ribbons, including the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Spencer said.

Acevedo’s father, Andres Acevedo, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram of Texas that his son had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and had not been the same since returning from Iraq in 2007. Worden and Eric Acevedo broke up about three months ago.

“I gave him to the government nice and healthy, and the government returned somebody who is capable of doing something like that,” Andres Acevedo told the paper.

Eric Acevedo remained at the Saginaw Jail on Wednesday afternoon, said Officer Kimberly Allison, a police spokeswoman. He was being held on $1 million bond.