Michael Ovsjannikov

On 19 August 2023, 28-year-old Michael Ovsjannikov was killed in Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, during the Säubrennerkirmes Volksfest. A few hours later, 26-year-old Grant Harrison and 25-year-old Robert Cain II, U.S. airmen stationed at nearby Spangdahlem Air Base, were arrested. Harrison confessed to fatally stabbing Ovsjannikov. The arrest, interrogation, and investigation were undertaken by the German Rhineland-Palatinate Police and the American Air Force Office of Special Investigation (OSI), but per the NATO Status of Forces Agreement, Harrison was tried by a U.S. military court, which dismissed the confession as inadmissible evidence. During the court-martial the following year, Harrison's defense argued that Cain had killed Ovsjannikov.