Kwaku Mahmoud (Earth-5875)

"... and then comes ice cream."

- - Kwaku Mahmoud's last words

Kwaku Mahmoud was a member of the UNSC Marine Corps, who was stationed aboard the prowler UNSC Red Horse in October 2552 as a part of Sergeant Zhao Heng Lopez's squad.

Biography
As a member of Sergeant Zhao Heng Lopez's Marine squad aboard the UNSC Red Horse, Mahmoud participated in the reconnaissance mission aboard the prison ship Mona Lisa. After a brief encounter with unarmed and unarmored sangheili, he was paired alongside Paola "Rabbit" Gomez, before she disappered and was impregnated by a Facehugger. After they found the remains of Rabbit's body, the Marines were ordered to carry the Cole Protocol, splitting in two teams, to which Mahmoud was assigned under Lopez alongside Private James MacCraw and Raj Singh.

While they scouted the medical bay, the Marines found the Office of Naval Intelligence agent John Smith, who had locked himself inside the ship's panic room. Smith persisted that they should leave the prison ship, but he refused to asnwer about the existence of the xenomorphs. This angered Lopez, who hit Smith and had Mahmoud search him, where he found his ID badge.

When Lopez did not carry Smith's desire to leave, he betrayed the Marines and slitted Mahmoud's throat with a hidden knife, taking his M41A pulse rifle before escaping the room. He bled to death in Lopez' arms, his last words being "... and then comes ice cream", referring to a common internal joke within the squad.