2 Fort Bragg soldiers charged in teen's death

SPRING LAKE, N.C. - Two soldiers in Fort Bragg's 82nd Airborne Division have been charged with killing a North Carolina teen and dumping his body.

Pvt. Sebastian Gamez and Spc. Christopher Blackett are both 20 years old.

82nd Airborne spokesman Staff Sgt. Andrew Alfano said Friday they're both truck drivers.

Both men are jailed on first-degree murder charges after authorities found the body of 17-year-old Vincent Carlisle Jr. in a wooded area north of his hometown of Spring Lake, just north of the Army post.

The body is being sent to the state medical examiner in Chapel Hill for an autopsy.

Both soldiers were held Friday without bond at the Harnett County Detention Center.

Deputies from Harnett and Cumberland Counties found the body of Carlisle four days after he left home and did not return.

Melanie Stewart, principal of Johnathan's House Christian School in Fuquay-Varina, N.C., told CBS Affiliate WRAL that Carlisle had transferred there and was a rising senior in the Class of 2012.

She said Carlisle had transferred from Overhills High in Spring Lake after being subjected to peer pressure there from those who felt "it wasn't cool to do good in school," Stewart told WRAL.

Stewart said Carlisle was looking forward to school, wanting to break away from a crowd he felt wasn't going anywhere.

"Vincent Carlisle was a very intelligent young man, and he had dreams, and he had plans," she said.