3 Marines Discovered at North Carolina Gasoline Station Died of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Officers Say

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Three U.S. Marines discovered unresponsive in a automotive at a North Carolina fuel station died of carbon monoxide poisoning, the native sheriff’s workplace mentioned Wednesday.

Deputies from the Pender County Sheriff’s Workplace discovered the three males Sunday morning in a privately owned automotive outdoors a Speedway fuel station in Hampstead. Autopsies carried out Wednesday by the North Carolina Workplace of Medical Examiner decided that each one three deaths had been the results of carbon monoxide poisoning, in keeping with the sheriff’s workplace.

The Pender County Sheriff’s Workplace didn’t instantly clarify whether or not their deaths had been unintentional.

“I’m saddened by the timeless and tragic demise of those three younger males, who served our nation honorably,” Sheriff Alan Cutler mentioned. “Our ideas and prayers stay with their households and colleagues throughout this time.”

The lance corporals, recognized by the U.S. Marine Corps as Tanner J. Kaltenberg, 19, of Madison, Wisconsin, Merax C. Dockery, 23, of Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, and Ivan R. Garcia, 23, of Naples, Florida, had been stationed at close by Camp Lejeune.

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