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The Killing of an Iraqi Civilian -
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Background - May 12th, 2006 May 13th, 2006 - Investigation into
the Circumstances surrounding Escalation of Force Incident on May 12 2006 Report by the U.S.
Department of the Army (1,8 MB) [
] The investigating officer, having carefully considered
the evidence, finds: 1. At approximately 1000 on 12 May 06, 4th
Platoon, Charlie Company was conducting a vehicle checkpoint on [redacted] at
grid [redacted][.] [
] 3. At 1005 Lt. [redacted] ordered his Platoon
Sergeant, Staff Sergeant [redacted] to pull onto the westbound lane of MSR
[redacted] in order to establish a western blocking position. 4. Lt. [redacted] pulled onto MSR [redacted] 300
meters to the east of SSgt [redacted] position to search civilian vehicles
between his vehicle and SSgt [redacted] vehicle. 5. Both eastbound and westbound traffic was stopped
on MSR [redacted] for this VCP. [
] 10. One minute after Lt. [redacted] pulled his
vehicle onto MSR [redacted] he noticed a vehicle go past the 20 ears stopped
800 meters to the east. 11. The car was moving rapidly toward Lt.
[redacted] position. 12. Lt. [redacted] platoon had not emplaced any
traffic control devices as they had been in position only one minute. 13. The vehicle did not respond when LCpl.
[redacted] and Cpl [redacted] waived red flags. 14. LCpl [redacted] and Cpl [redacted] continued to
wave flags as the vehicle moved from 300 meters to within 150 meters of the
Marines position. 15. When the vehicle approached 150 meters, LCpl
[redacted] fired a pen flare at the vehicle. 16. The vehicle did not respond to the pen flare. 17. When the vehicle came within 100 meters of the
Marines, Lt. [redacted] fired one 5.56 tracer round from his M-4 into the
deck in front of the vehicle. 18. When the vehicle did not stop, Lt. [redacted]
fired 3 shots at the passenger side wheels of the vehicle. 19. Both passenger side wheels were punctured by
the rounds. 20. When the vehicle came to within 75 meters of
the Marines, LCpl [redacted] fired one 5-8 round burst into the qrill of the
vehicle with a M-240G. 21. As the vehicle continued westbound, Cpl
[redacted] engaged the vehicle with 14 rounds of .50 caliber machine gunfire
as the vehicle came to within 50 meters of the Marines. 22. The vehicie came to a stop approximately 20
meters in front of the Marines. 23. The corpsman, HM3 [redacted] was sent to the
vehicle to assess injuries. 24. They found one male civilian KIA and one female
civilan, unhurt. [
] 26. The civilian female, now identified as
[redacted] said that she and her husband [redacted] were returning from their
sons funeral. 27. [redacted] stated that she did not know why her
husband did not respond to the Marines actions and stop the car. 28. [redacted] stated that her husband had had bad
eyesight. [
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