Girlfriend of murdered Green Beret speaks out after his wife charged

The murder of Clint Bonel, retired green beret, whose remains were found in the Lake in North Carolina this year, left their loved ones to ignite. His wife is now accused of killing him.

“We, as a community, are devastated,” Kelly Edwards, Bonel’s girlfriend, told Abc News. “How do you understand something like this? There really is no understanding.”

She added: “Whatever happened to him, which did not deserve – no one deserves any of it – but he was just a really beautiful human being.”

Bonel was in his second semester at the Assistant School of Doctor at the Methodist University of Faetheville, North Carolina, and was the president of the cohort, Edwards said.

“This is a green beret that was a patriot of the corpus that serves for our country, who helped his colleagues with all his injuries, who were located on teams that were touring the world and he retires and retires in three weeks and this happens? This is not good,” Edwards said.

Edwards told Bonel told her that he was already going through the divorce process. Bonel said he and his wife have been living separately for several years and he met with divorce lawyers, she said.

“After trying to do a marriage work for a long time, he decided it was best to cut the cords and continue. So when I met him, he was already at this stage,” Edwards said.

She added: “He was very intelligent, very intelligent. But I think he really tried to see the best in all who was around. You have this personality that is a really big feature you need to have, and sometimes it can be a disadvantage.”

Police said a check on Bonel’s well -being was called by an employee at the University of Methodist on January 28 after Bonel did not attend class. When the deputies arrived at home, they talked to his wife, Shana Cloud, who said she had not seen Bonel from the previous day, according to the Camberland County Sheriff.

The residence has found vehicles, a school bag and other items, police said. A second inspection of the welfare was requested later by a friend of Bonel, according to the Sheriff’s office.

In the end, he was declared a missing man. Police executed numerous search orders before finding human remains in the lake on February 25th.

A few weeks later, the remains were identified as belonging to Bonel.

His wife has already been accused of first -degree murder and crime, concealing an unnatural death.

Cloud, a former traveling nurse who has worked at the Virginia Department, remains in custody without a bond. Her lawyer maintains her innocence, according to the ABC Station WTVD in Durham, North Carolina.

“G -Ja Cloud is looking forward to her day in court,” her defense said.

In court, prosecutors claim that the cloud was seen on a video near where the remains of Bonel were found, according to WTVD.

“Bonel told his girlfriend that he had informed the defendant of his divorce and his plans the night before,” said Camberland District Prosecutor William West in court on Monday. “We believe he was killed the next morning.”

Bonel has been shot repeatedly, prosecutors say. The search for the couple’s home revealed bullets holes in his bag and laptop, according to WTVD.

Edwards said she began to notice some uncomfortable models and the things that happen in Bonel’s life as their relationship became more serious.

“He doesn’t really talk much about his wife at the beginning. I just knew more about his daughter, how much he loves her daughter and all the things you know she brought to his life,” she said.

Edwards said she saw Bonel on Monday, which he disappeared and said you could say that there was a lot of mind.

“The last text was that he was going to bed good night. And that was all. And the next morning I sent a message on an early morning text and there was no delivery,” she said.

Edwards said she called a well -being check when she didn’t hear Bonel the next day.

“I knew something was wrong because we were in communication during the day – mostly text messages because he was in school – and I didn’t hear from him on January 28,” Edwards said.

Edwards said he wanted people to remember Bonel as an incredible person who left influence on many people.

“He was a very, just cheerful, happy man, and he really enjoyed his next part of his life, closing his head, leaving the army after 20 years, being at the BCP school – he was looking forward to the next chapter,” Edwards said.

The Camberland County Sheriff’s service said: “Our hearts are coming out to the Bonel family, the Special Forces Community and an assistant program of the University of Medical at this difficult time.”

No further details will be published on the “out of respect” case to Bonel and the integrity of the investigation, the sheriff’s department reported.