Woman Beaten, Shot To Death At JBLM: Charges

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WA - Two Washington men have been charged with second-degree murder for killing a woman in a wooded area on the base in September. The woman, a mother and resident of Tacoma, was beaten with a bat and shot three times, according to court records.

The two men, Bobbie A. Pease, 49, and Jeremy J. Warren, 30, on Sept. 4 allegedly took the victim to the woods off 8th Avenue East inside JBLM. They had allegedly smoked methamphetamine after visiting the Saar's grocery store in Spanaway.

Once at JBLM, the men allegedly pepper-sprayed the woman, beat her with an aluminum bat, and then shot her. The woman's family reported her missing on Sept. 8. Tacoma police determined that she had dropped off her 14-year-old daughter to a home on Tacoma's eastside on Sept. 4. Witnesses told police she then got into a vehicle with a drug dealer named "Mike."

Under questioning, both Pease and Warren eventually admitted to their roles in the killing, according to court records. Warren initially told the FBI that Pease had carried out the killing, blinding Warren with pepper spray in the process, according to court records.

The case was unsealed in federal court in Seattle on Monday.

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