Army Cpl. Nakealon Mosley, 28, was an automated logistics specialist assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, when he shot Sgt. Francine Martinez, 24, in 2021 outside of a nightclub in Killeen, according to court records. Martinez died in the hospital nearly two weeks later. A jury on Monday, July 21, 2025, found Mosley guilty of murder. (Bell County Jail)
A jury has found a Fort Hood soldier guilty of murder in the shooting death of a fellow soldier who was the mother of his child, according to court documents.
Army Cpl. Nakealon Mosley, 28, was an automated logistics specialist assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division, when on Sept. 4, 2021, he shot Sgt. Francine Martinez, 24, outside of a nightclub in Killeen, Texas, according to court records. Martinez died in the hospital nearly two weeks later.
Mosley’s jury trial began in February and was paused until this week while an appeals court weighed in on a legal issue that arose during the trial, according to online court records. The trial resumed Monday with the jury hearing closing arguments and then coming to its verdict.
Mosley, who enlisted in 2016, is now in Bell County jail. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 9, according to court records. An attorney listed for Mosley did not respond Wednesday to a request for comment.
In the days before the shooting, Martinez had filed a petition to establish paternity for the couple’s child, according to Bell County court records. The case was closed Sept. 22, 2021.
Both soldiers had previously served at Fort Carson, Colo., before arriving to Fort Hood, according to their service records. Martinez was a cannoneer with the 1st Calvary Division. She enlisted in April 2018 and served one deployment to Afghanistan, according to Fort Hood.
Witnesses of the shooting told Killeen police officers that Mosley and Martinez had been romantically involved in the past and had a child together, according to an arrest affidavit for Mosley.
The two soldiers ran into each other at a Killeen nightclub on Sept. 4, which led to an argument in the parking lot, according to the affidavit. As Martinez left in one vehicle, Mosley followed in a separate vehicle and fired gunshots at Martinez’s vehicle, police said.
Another former soldier, Demetrius Lavar Jones Jr., 26, is also charged with murder in connection to Martinez’s death, according to court and military records. Jones served from 2018 to 2021 as a cavalry scout and left the service as a private.
Jones, who was Mosley’s roommate at the time of the shooting, was at the nightclub with Mosley and both men were in the vehicle at the time of the shooting, according to an affidavit for Jones’ arrest. He has been in Bell County Jail since Nov. 15, 2024, and has pleaded not guilty. His jury trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 15, according to court records.
“We understand the gravity of the allegations against our client and the profound impact this case has had on the Fort [Hood] community and beyond,” Ben Michael, founding partner for Michael and Associates, which is representing Jones, said last year in a news release. “However, Mr. Jones remains adamant that he was not present at the time of the incident and that the real shooter is using him as a scapegoat in an attempt to establish reasonable doubt.”
The firm on Wednesday declined to comment on Mosley’s conviction.
