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he military was mourning two soldiers Tuesday who were fatally shot while trying to protect a woman from a gun-toting man in a South Carolina bar.
Staff Sgt. Charles Allen Judge Jr., 40, and Sgt. First Class Jonathan Michael Prins, 29, "were acting asgood Samaritans when they were shot," said Capt. Adam Myrick of the Lexington County Sheriff's Department.
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Joseph Elijah Mills, 25, was arrested shortly after Sunday's double killing and charged with two counts of murder.
"I'm very sorry about what happened," Mills said at his arraignment Monday, The State newspaper reported. "I never meant for it to happen like that. I was being lynched by eight people because I was chasing a girl who grabbed drugs off the seat and took off running."
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Judge and Prins were at the Frayed Knot Bar & Grill in Lake Murray, west of Columbia, when Mills "physically assaulted a female companion and was physically separated from her by several bar patrons," according to arrest warrants obtained by NBC News.
Among those who stepped in to help the woman were Judge and Prins, the warrants state.
"Mills then presented a handgun" and allegedly fired the fatal shots.
Judge was hit twice and Prins three times, according to the Lexington County Coroner's Office.