Dive teams have been brought in to help find the remains of a paratrooper who was killed at the Cape Lookout National Seashore in May, officials said Thursday.
Spc. Enrique Roman-Martinez, 21, was last seen May 22 while camping with fellow soldiers near Mile Marker 46 on South Core Banks.
Roman-Martinez’s partial remains were later found May 29, after washing up on Shackleford Banks Island, which is part of the Cape Lookout National Seashore.
The Army Criminal Investigation Command is investigating the death as a homicide.
The autopsy report, which is from the Division of Forensic Pathology at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, notes that examiners had only a severed head, as neither the torso nor any extremities were available, according to the report
Dive teams, special agents return to Outer Banks in case of slain paratrooper December 10, 2020 Spc. Enrique Roman-Martinez, an 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, was reported missing May 23 while on a Memorial Day weekend camping trip with fellow soldiers at Cape Lookout National Seashore. (National Park Service)
Army Criminal Investigation Command agents and members of the FBI’s Evidence Recovery and Dive Teams are currently conducting searches near the Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina as part of the investigation into the death of Spc. Enrique Roman-Martinez, 21. Roman-Martinez, an 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, was reported missing May 23 while on a Memorial Day weekend camping trip with fellow soldiers.