Sgt. 1st Class Trey Corrales, 35, of San Antonio, also will be tried on charges that he wrongfully solicited another soldier to shoot the Iraqi, and for wrongfully impeding the investigation by having an AK-47 rifle planted near the victim after he had been shot, according to the Army.

Maj. Gen. Benjamin R. Mixon, the commander of the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield, approved the charges after reviewing the evidence, the Army said in a release.

The arraignment and trial dates have yet to be determined. The Army previously did not rule out the possibility of the death penalty if Corrales is convicted.

A second Schofield soldier accused of shooting the Iraqi will be tried at court-martial on a lesser charge than the premeditated murder charge he originally faced, the Army had said previously.

Spc. Christopher Shore, 25, of Winder, Ga., will face a charge of third-degree murder, defined as an "act inherently dangerous to another," according to the Army.

A Schofield legal official had said the charge Shore will be court-martialed on is roughly equivalent to a civilian manslaughter charge. If convicted, Shore faces up to life in prison, but there is no mandatory minimum term.

Shore and Corrales are accused of shooting the Iraqi man on June 23 after a raid in the village of al Saheed outside Kirkuk. The soldiers were looking for insurgents planting roadside bombs.

The soldiers were part of a 15-month deployment by 7,000 Schofield soldiers to northern Iraq that ended in October.

The Army accused Shore of shooting the Iraqi after being ordered to do so by Corrales. The soldiers are with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment.

At a preliminary hearing for Shore in October, a fellow soldier testified that Corrales pulled the Iraqi man out of a house that had been secured and told him to run.

As the confused Iraqi started backing up, the soldier said, he saw Corrales start to raise his weapon. The soldier said he turned, not wanting to see what came next, and heard up to five shots.

After being ordered to "finish" the wounded Iraqi by Corrales, Shore said in court that he "had to act. I had to do something."

He said he fired two shots off to the side of the Iraqi's head in the dirt without Corrales seeing that he did not shoot the man. But he also acknowledged that he previously had said he had shot at the Iraqi.

Several soldiers testified that Corrales was a mercurial and tyrannical platoon sergeant who told them to "kill all military-age males" encountered in the village and in the target house.

There also was testimony that Corrales tried to get the Iraqi man to hold an AK-47 rifle, and that it was planted near him after he had been shot.