Carbon monoxide pollution killed the three young US Marines who were found dead in a car at a gas station near Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
The Jacksonville, North Carolina, Daily News reported that the call about a missing person that led to the tragic finding on Sunday morning came from the worried mother of one of the dead servicemen.
The woman called the Pender County Sheriff’s Office just before 8:30 a.m. to say that her son, who was in the Marines, didn’t show up for his trip home to Oklahoma the night before, the outlet said.
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Later, the sheriff’s office found all three of them dead in a four-door car in the parking lot of a Hampstead Speedway Convenience Store.
Authorities did not say right away if they thought the deaths were accidents or not.
Merax Dockery, 23, from Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, Tanner Kaltenberg, 19, from Madison, Wisconsin, and Ivan Garcia, 23, from Naples, Florida, were all lance corporals.
Authorities did not say right away if they thought the deaths were accidents or not.
The US Marine Corps said in a statement on Tuesday that all three had been declared dead “by a competent medical authority” and that the sheriff’s office was looking into the case.
“The 2nd Marine Logistics Group will continue to help the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and local police with their investigation,” the statement said, referring to the NCIS.
Brig. Gen. Michael McWilliams, who was in charge of the group, sent his “deepest sympathy and condolences” to the family, friends, and coworkers of the Marines who had died.
“Our main goal is to help those who have lost someone tragically get the resources and support they need to get through this very hard time.”
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