Three men who were found dead over the weekend at a North Carolina gas station were identified as Marine lance corporals stationed at nearby Camp Lejeune, the U.S. Marine Corps said Tuesday. Deputies from the Pender County Sheriff's Office found the men unresponsive Sunday morning in a privately owned car at a Speedway gas station in Hampstead, 29 miles southwest of the base, the department said in a statement. Medical authorities pronounced all three dead the same day, and their cause of death has not been released. Sgt. Chester Ward...

Three men who were found dead over the weekend at a North Carolina gas station have been identified as Marine lance corporals stationed at nearby Camp Lejeune, the U.S. Marine Corps said Tuesday. Deputies from the Pender County Sheriff’s Office found the three men unresponsive Sunday morning in a privately owned car at a Speedway gas station in Hampstead, 29 miles southwest of the base, the department said in a statement. Medical authorities pronounced all three dead the same day, and their cause of death has not been released. Sgt....

Three people found dead inside a vehicle at a North Carolina gas station over the weekend have been identified as Marine lance corporals who were based at nearby Camp Lejeune. Deputies with the Pender County Sheriff’s Office discovered the bodies on Sunday around 9 a.m. in the parking lot of a Speedway convenience store in Hampstead, located about one hour from the military training facility, the Marine Corps said. They were looking into reports of a missing person at the time. The Marines were identified on Tuesday as Lance Cpl....

Three Marines were found dead near the North Carolina coast, sparking a mystery, officials told news outlets. The Pender County Sheriff’s Office said it received a report of a missing person and started investigating early Sunday, July 23. That’s when deputies reported finding three bodies in a car in Hampstead. The people who died were identified as 19-year-old Lance Cpl. Tanner Kaltenberg; 23-year-old Lance Cpl. Merax Dockery; and 23-year-old Lance Cpl. Ivan Garcia, the 2nd Marine Logistics Group told WCTI. As of July 25, officials continued to investigate how the...

Three men found dead in a stationary vehicle parked at a North Carolina gas station were identified Tuesday as U.S. Marines stationed at nearby Camp Lejeune. The sheriff’s office for Pender County said in a release on Facebook officers responding to a report of a missing person Sunday night found the three men deceased inside the vehicle at a Speedway convenience store in Hampstead, N.C., an unincorporated community located just north of Wilmington, UPI reports. Cause of death has not been made public but the Pender County Sheriff’s Office said...

Investigation Continues Over 3 Marines Found Dead in Car in North Carolina Signage stands on the main gate to Camp Lejeune Marine Base outside Jacksonville, N.C., on April 29, 2022. Three men who were found dead over the weekend at an eastern N.C. gas station have been identified as Marine lance corporals stationed nearby at Camp Lejeune, the U.S. Marine Corps said July 25, 2023. (Allen G. Breed/AP Photo) Three men found dead in a car outside of a North Carolina gas station on July 23 have been identified as...

Three men who were found dead over the weekend at a North Carolina gas station have been identified as Marine lance corporals stationed at nearby Camp Lejeune, the U.S. Marine Corps said Tuesday. Deputies from the Pender County Sheriff's Office found the three men unresponsive Sunday morning in a privately owned car at a Speedway gas station in Hampstead, 29 miles southwest of the base, the department said in a statement. Medical authorities pronounced all three dead the same day, and their cause of death has not been released. Sgt....

The Marine Corps has identified the three Marines who were found dead inside a vehicle in North Carolina over the weekend. Camp Lejeune identified the men as Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Merax C. Dockery, 23, from Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Ivan R. Garcia, 23, from Naples, Florida and Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Tanner J. Kaltenberg, 19, from Madison, Wisconsin. The Pender County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to a call at 9 a.m. on Sunday to look into a report of a missing person. During their investigation authorities...