Months before his arrest in Russia, U.S. Army soldier Gordon Black made a surprise video call from his overseas tour in South Korea to his 6-year-old daughter in Texas.
Instead of a normal chat, however, his daughter and wife witnessed a fight break out between Black and his Russian girlfriend that became bloody, said his wife, Megan. Screaming turned to violence, with his girlfriend clawing at his face. Then she pulled a knife.
“She stabbed him,” Megan Black told Reuters in an exclusive interview, saying Black “had blood on his face.” Her daughter was distraught.
Black could not be reached for comment about the video call. The Army did not respond to a request for comment about his case. Reuters was unsuccessful reaching Black through the State Department.
Black, a U.S. Army staff sergeant posted at Camp Humphreys outside Seoul, was arrested on May 2 in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok and is being held in pre-trial confinement, accused of theft after an argument, according to Russian authorities.
His mother, Melody Jones, told Reuters he followed his girlfriend to Russia even though they “fought like cats and dogs.”
“I told them both: You don’t need to be together. One of you is going to get hurt one of these days,” Jones said. “You know, because if you fight, it’s a not a good thing if it’s all you do.”
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