On Friday, the Marine Corps recognized a Marine killed in a Wednesday capturing at a Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, barracks that investigators are treating as a murder.
Lance Cpl. Austin B. Schwenk, 19, and assigned to 2nd Battalion, sixth Marines, died Wednesday night, with the service saying that one other Marine “suspected of involvement within the dying” was apprehended quickly after. The suspect has not been recognized by the service.
The capturing occurred in an on-base barracks. An investigation is ongoing and is being led by the Naval Felony Investigative Service, or NCIS, a spokesperson for the 2nd Marine Division instructed Navy.com on Friday.
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“We’ll proceed to help the investigating company to the fullest extent doable,” 1st Lt. Olivia Giarrizzo, the spokesperson, mentioned in an emailed assertion. “Our deepest condolences exit to the Marine’s household and mates at the moment.”
Instantly following the suspect’s apprehension Wednesday night, Marine Corps officers launched a press release describing the dying as a murder in a press launch, although no particulars concerning the unit, sufferer or suspect had been launched then.
Schwenk was born in Onslow County, North Carolina, the identical county that’s residence to Camp Lejeune. He attended recruit coaching at Parris Island, South Carolina, and was awarded the Nationwide Protection Service Medal.
He enlisted within the Marines in June 2022, based on the service. He was an electro-optical ordnance repairer, the place he would have been tasked with fixing missile electronics, night time imaginative and prescient gadgets and different hearth management programs.
In 2021, a Marine at Camp Lejeune was shot and injured in a barracks, in accordance to The Related Press. Officers mentioned that the incident was unintended.
Camp Lejeune skilled one other tragedy in July, when three lance corporals had been discovered useless inside a automobile at a gasoline station outdoors of the set up. They died of carbon monoxide poisoning, native authorities mentioned, however investigators didn’t totally decide the circumstances of the publicity.
— Drew F. Lawrence might be reached at drew.lawrence@navy.com. Observe him on X @df_lawrence.
