Two US Navy SEAL officers and two Marines have been charged in connection with the 2017 death of a Green Beret comrade in the African nation of Mali, where they were all deployed.
The SEALs charged in the case are both chief petty officers assigned to Naval Special Warfare Development Group, commonly referred to as SEAL Team 6. The US Navy has not released their names and redacted them from public charge sheets, The Navy Times reported.
Citing charge sheets in the case, the report said the special operators are accused of breaking into Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar’s bedroom in Bamako, Mali, while he was sleeping, and restraining him with duct tape and strangling him by placing him in a chokehold.
In addition to felony murder, the officers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, hazing and burglary.
If convicted, all four soldiers could face the death penalty or life in prison without…