Former soldier pleads guilty in love-triangle murder

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT/Gray News) - A former soldier pleaded guilty to murder in the second-degree after a love-triangle murder left one soldier dead and put a Georgia military base on lockdown.

Natravien R. Landry, 27, of Abbeville, Louisiana, was charged in the Dec. 2024 shooting death of U.S. Army Sgt. Andre S. Stewart Jr.

Landry will spend between 10 years and life in prison. He will also face financial penalties and a period of supervised release upon completion of any prison term, said Margaret E. “Meg” Heap, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia.

Landry was an Army National Guard soldier assigned to Fort Gordon, formerly known as Fort Eisenhower.

He was working with his Guard unit at Fort Gordon early in the morning of Dec. 14, 2024, when he visited an apartment on the installation of a woman with whom Landry shares a child.

After seeing a vehicle parked outside the apartment and suspecting another man was at the home, Landry walked inside the apartment to a bedroom upstairs and found Stewart and two children.

Landry, who was aware Stewart was unarmed, shot him once in the chest. Stewart was later pronounced dead.

After the shooting, Landry drove away from Fort Gordon and was arrested about three hours later on Interstate 85 during a traffic stop by the Meriwether County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies recovered a 9mm Glock pistol that testing proved was used in the shooting.