Wanted Marine commits suicide in Canada

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Wanted Marine commits suicide in Canada
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Feb 13, 2009 20:15:59 EST

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — A Marine wanted by the U.S. military for abandoning his unit sneaked across the border into Canada and fatally shot himself outside his mother’s farmhouse, police said Friday.

Timothy Scott, 22, was holding a pistol when police found him in the road outside his mother’s home in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Sgt. Mark Gallagher of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.

“Police spoke to him to try to talk him out of using the gun ... and unfortunately the circumstances unfolded and he took his life,” Gallagher said.

The Marine had served at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and is thought to have left his unit around Tuesday, police Staff Sgt. Mark Furey said.

Cpl. Melissa McCoy, a Marine Corps spokeswoman at Camp Lejeune, said officials were aware of the case but could not release any details of the man’s military history or whether he had served overseas.


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