Suspect arrested in 2001 killing of a pregnant soldier at a former U.S. Army base in Germany

A former member of the armed forces was arrested Thursday in Florida in the death of a pregnant soldier at a former U.S. Army base in Germany more than two decades ago, authorities said.

Shannon Wilkerson, 42, was charged with one count of first-degree murder in the Nov. 3, 2001, killing of Pfc. Amanda Gonzales, 19, the Department of Justice said in a news release.

Gonzales, who was four months pregnant at the time of her death, was found on Nov. 5 in her third-floor barracks room at Fliegerhorst Kasern, then an Army base near Hanau, Germany, after she failed to report for work, the FBI said.