Fort Bragg hearing set in death of soldier from Va.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- An investigative hearing has been scheduled this week for seven paratroopers charged in the death of a soldier from Virginia at their North Carolina post.

The 82nd Airborne Division said the Article 32 hearing in the death of 27-year-old Pfc. Luke Brown of Fredericksburg was scheduled to start this morning. Master Sgt. Thomas Clementson said yesterday that the hearing was expected to last several days.

Under military law, involuntary manslaughter carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.

Brown was an intelligence analyst who was found unresponsive July 20 in a car on the Army post. Although Army detectives treated the case as a homicide, the military medical examiner said the cause and manner of death were undetermined.