Gordon’s body was later found on the side of the road. The court was told another teenager allegedly hit the doctor in the face as he lay fatally wounded and bloodied on the ground.

About 4am, after the party wound down, the teen and a friend entered Dr Gordon’s home via a partially open garage door having earlier spotted his black Mercedes in the garage.

At his trial in June last year, he pleaded not guilty to making death threats but admitted he was partially guilty of taking the money, albeit out of necessity.

US Army soldier Gordon Black, who was detained on suspicion of theft, appears in court in the far eastern city of Vladivostok on June 6, 2024. PAVEL KOROLYOV/Getty Images© PAVEL KOROLYOV/Getty Images ...

U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Gordon Black was jailed in 2024 for three years and nine months following his arrest in Vladivostok in Russia's far east where he had visited his girlfriend who accused ...

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, who was detained on suspicion of theft and issuing threats, appears in court in the far eastern city of Vladivostok in a June 6, 2024 file photo.

Black was arrested on 2 May after Vashchuk accused him of stealing from her and threatening to kill her. At his trial in June last year, he pleaded not guilty to making death threats but admitted he ...

She is scheduled to be released in April 2027. Gordon can be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both prison and a fine. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 9, 2025.

Gordon Black was sentenced in June by a court in Russia's Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, where he was arrested in May while visiting a Russian woman he met and dated while serving in South Korea.

Gordon Black, a 34-year-old US staff sergeant, was detained on May 2 in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok after an argument with his girlfriend, Alexandra Vashchuk, whom he had met while in ...

A Russian court rejected an appeal of a U.S. soldier who was sentenced in June to nearly four years in a penal colony after being found guilty of stealing $113 from his girlfriend and making ...