Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
Blackwater Worldwide security guards Donald Ball (2nd L) and Dustin Heard (R) leave the federal courthouse with their legal team and supporters after being arraigned with three fellow Blackwater guards on manslaughter charges for allegedly killing 14 unarmed civilians and wounding 20 others in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad, in Washington January 6, 2009.
The Washington jury found three of the ex-guards with the private security company, Paul Slough, Dustin Heard and Evan Liberty, guilty of voluntary manslaughter. It found a fourth guard, Nicholas Slatten, guilty of murder in connection with the first death at the circle.
In all, the jury found the four former guards guilty on nearly every count related to the incident.
(Reporting by Aruna Viswanatha and Julia Edwards; Editing by Susan Heavey)
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