Navy SEAL pleads guilty in 2017 strangulation death of Green Beret
One defendant remains, a Marine Raider scheduled for trial on Feb. 1.
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One defendant remains, a Marine Raider scheduled for trial on Feb. 1.
Four special operators face the same charges related to the death, but one of the defendants has been identified as having held the Army staff sergeant in the chokehold that killed him.
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The US service members who were charged were joined in the room by a Malian security guard and a British man who had befriended the Americans, said a Marine who is expected to plead guilty.
USNI News Marine Raider Found Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter in Death of Green Beret July 2, 2021 5:14 PM Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar. US ArmyA Marine Raider was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, obstruction, conspiracy and charges of hazing in the 2017 homicide of an Army Green Beret in Mali. A military jury found Gunnery Sgt. Mario Madera-Rodriguez guilty late Thursday after a three-week trial of the charges related to the death of Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar in Bamako, Mali in a house shared by U.S. special operators. The jury did not find Madera-Rodriguez guilty of murder or burglary,...