World | Tikrit US Soldier Held in Iraq Contractor's Shooting Death Contractor for Houston-based KBR shot to death, died at 8:30am By Mat Probasco Posted Sep 14, 2009 5:33 AM CDT Copied A US soldier in Tikrit, Iraq, where an American contractor was shot to death. (Getty Images) A US soldier is being held in the shooting death of a civilian contractor in Tikrit, Iraq, reports CNN. Houston-based military contractor KBR said the victim shot to death yesterday at Contingency Operating Base Speicher was an employee. Read These Next We knew Letterman would pipe up about Colbert eventually. 11 people hurt in a "brutal act of violence" in Michigan. Now we know why Ghislaine Maxwell may have opened up to the DOJ. A parent's nightmare, in a white cardboard box. Report an error