The trial is expected to last up to three weeks. He has pleaded not guilty and could face a life sentence. He’s also accused of shooting two civilians - an elderly man and a school-age girl - from sniper perches in Iraq in 2017. Gallagher, whose case has drawn President Donald Trump’s attention, faces seven counts that include premeditated murder and attempted murder. The case was built on lies by junior SEALs who hated Gallagher because he was tough, according to the defense. In previous interviews with investigators, Scott had said the fighter died of asphyxiation but no one asked him to clarify that.ĭefense attorneys have said there’s no body, autopsy or forensic evidence to show a killing happened. The testimony rattled the prosecutor, who called his own witness a liar, according to NBC 7's Artie Ojeda, who was in the courtroom. Scott said the fighter was going to be turned over to the Iraqi forces and that he had previously seen those forces torture, rape and murder prisoners. “I wanted to save him from waking up to what had happened next." "I knew he was going to die anyway," Scott said. “The stabbing I saw yes, he would have survived," Scott said.įor the first time, Scott said he was the one who killed the ISIS fighter by asphyxiation. Scott said he saw Gallagher stab the prisoner but in a way that would not have killed him: behind the collar bone toward the back on the right side. Instead, he was granted immunity to testify for the prosecution. Navy SEAL SO1 Corey Scott, had wanted to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, but the judge rejected that.
The defense has said “no forensics, no autopsy, no body, no murder."Ī bombshell was dropped Thursday when a prosecution witness testified he was the one who killed the fighter in Mosul, Iraq, in May 2017 - not Gallagher, who faces charges of murder and attempted murder. The only photograph of the dead wounded ISIS prisoner shows a big patch of white gauze over the neck blocking any view of a stab wound. Musgrove Channels Inner Peavy in Padres Win Over RangersĪnd while he said that in either description the stab wound could be fatal, when asked by the prosecution if a stab wound was the cause of death Sheridan said, “Can’t give cause of death, just isn’t enough evidence.”
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