The Army yesterday reduced the charge and punishment against a Schofield Barracks soldier who had been found guilty of aggravated assault in connection with the killing of an Iraqi civilian last June.

The action followed the acquittal last month of another Schofield soldier who admitted shooting the Iraqi during a raid on a house in a village near Kirkuk.

Brig. Gen. J. Michael Bednarek, commanding general of the 25th Infantry Division, yesterday granted clemency to Spc. Christopher P. Shore, 26, of Winder, Ga.

Shore had been found guilty in February of aggravated assault. He was sentenced to 120 days' confinement, a two-grade reduction in rank and given a written reprimand.

Bednarek yesterday announced that the charge against Shore was reduced to simple assault and that his sentence was reduced to time served — 72 days.

Shore was released May 1 from the Ford Island Naval Brig after Bednarek granted a deferral of confinement.

Shore was a member of a platoon that raided a house in the village of Al Saheed, looking for insurgents suspected of firing at U.S. helicopters and planting roadside bombs.

Shore claimed platoon leader Sgt. 1st Class Trey Corrales ordered him to shoot an Iraqi man. Shore said he fired but intentionally missed.

Corrales, 35, of San Antonio, was acquitted April 25 after testifying that his shooting of the man was within the military's rules of engagement.