CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A Marine killed in a taking pictures at Camp Lejeune was recognized by officers Friday a 19-year-old lance corporal from North Carolina.
Austin B. Schwenk, of Onslow County, North Carolina, died Wednesday in an incident in a barracks room on the bottom, the bottom mentioned in a press release. Schwenk enlisted in 2022 and he belonged to the 2nd Battalion, sixth Marine Regiment, the bottom mentioned.
A second Marine was being held Friday on suspicion of being concerned within the dying, the bottom mentioned. Officers known as the dying a murder and described the opposite Marine as a suspect.
The Naval Legal Investigative Service will examine the dying, mentioned the bottom, situated in North Carolina.
The sprawling Camp Lejeune covers about 240 sq. miles (621 sq. kilometers) and is house to the II Marine Expeditionary Power. Its seashores and ranges present coaching in amphibious assaults and concrete warfare and it’s used each for U.S. Marine coaching and for workout routines involving different army forces from all over the world.
The dying got here two days earlier than the bottom was scheduled to conduct annual coaching referred to as Train Pressing Response that “gives a chance for tenant instructions to develop and train emergency safety procedures,” in keeping with a press launch.
In 2021, a Marine was shot and wounded in a barracks on the base. Authorities later decided that the taking pictures was unintentional.
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