GUAYANILLA, Puerto Rico (AP) — He grew up in Puerto Rico, played percussion in his high school band, spent nearly a decade in the National Guard, served as a peacekeeper in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, worked as police officer and then joined the U.S. Army.
That was Ivan Lopez’s seemingly unremarkable route into the military. But what happened from there — and why the 34-year-old soldier turned against his comrades with such deadly fury — were a mystery Thursday.