“I wanted to save him from waking up to what had happened next.' 'I knew he was going to die anyway,' Scott said. Scott said he did that by putting his thumb over a breathing tube. Scott testified that Gallagher did stab the ISIS fighter but was not the one who killed the teenager. San Diego company Qualcomm to supply Apple with chips for future iPhone launches “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 granted him 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. Navy SEAL who was accused of murder in the death of an Islamic State fighter.Ī prosecution witness testified he was the one who killed the fighter in Mosul, Iraq, in May 2017 - not Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, who faces charges of murder and attempted murder. Prosecutors have said Gallagher tried to bribe fellow SEALs not to talk about the incident to NCIS investigatorsĪ bombshell was dropped Thursday in the court-martial of a decorated U.S.Gallagher has served 19 years in the US Navy and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal twice.Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward Gallagher is accused of premeditated murder after a stabbing in Mosul, Iraq in May 2017.Tamara Lawrence, a Public Affairs Officer for Naval Special Warfare Command. We don’t identify them by name, or by any other manner, due to the nature of their work, for the protection of their teammates and their families, and to protect on-going and future missions,' said Capt. “As a matter of policy, we do not identify our special operators.

This type of disclosure goes against Navy policy, according to a Navy statement shared with KPBS. Each of the men he identified testified against Gallagher.

The social media post, which is part of a longer video project that Gallagher claims he’s working on, goes on to identify the names and positions of several members of Gallagher’s former SEAL team. RELATED: New Documents Shed Light On How SEAL Team Turned In Eddie Gallagher 'Even though I went to trial, exposed all the lies that were said about me by certain cowards in my platoon, and found ‘not guilty,’ there are those to this day who refuse to accept that fact,' he said.

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