SAVANNAH --- A soldier has been charged with murder in the September shootings of a superior and a fellow team leader at their Army patrol base in central Iraq, the military said Friday.

Sgt. Joseph Bozicevich, 39, of Minneapolis, has been returned from Iraq and is being held at an undisclosed location in southern Georgia, said Maj. Lee Peters, a spokesman at Fort Stewart, where the soldiers' unit is based.

Sgt. Bozicevich is charged with the Sept. 14 slayings of Army Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson, 24, of Pensacola, Fla., and Sgt. Wesley R. Durbin, 26, of Dallas.

The soldiers were serving a 15-month deployment with the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division.

The Army has released little information about the slayings. A Defense Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, has told The Associated Press the suspect had been in a meeting with Staff Sgt. Dawson and Sgt. Durbin to discuss his leadership performance.

Sgt. Bozicevich will face a hearing to determine whether the Army has sufficient evidence to pursue a court-martial.

-- Associated Press