Tracy E. Perkins (born 1971) is a Sergeant First Class (reduced in rank by court martial to Staff Sergeant) in the U.S. Army. On 3 January 2004, he forced, at gunpoint, civilian plumbers Zaidoun Hassoun and Marwan Fadel to leap from a road bridge in Samarra, Iraq, into the waters of the River Tigris below. The cousins Hassoun and Fadel had been caught by a U.S. checkpoint after curfew. Fadel managed to reach the riverbank, but claims that he saw Hassoun drown and that the family later retrieved and buried the body. The battalion commander of the four soldiers, Lt. Col. Nathan Sassaman, was reprimanded for impeding investigators. On 8 January 2005, a military court in Fort Hood, Texas, U.S., acquitted Perkins of involuntary manslaughter but convicted him of aggravated assault and obstruction of justice. He received a prison term of six months and a reduction in rank. External links Soldiers charged in Iraqi drowning Soldier cleared in drowning case 1971 births Living people People convicted of obstruction of justice American people convicted of assault United States Army personnel of the Iraq War United States Army soldiers War crimes in Iraq United States Army personnel who were court-martialed United States military war crimes