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First trial in soldier hazing death set to start
Posted: Jul 24, 2012 5:27 AM by Kate Richards
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - The first of eight court-martial trials is set to start in North Carolina against soldiers accused in racial hazing that led to the suicide of a fellow U.S. soldier in Afghanistan.
The court-martial for Sgt. Adam Holcomb of Youngstown, Ohio, will begin Tuesday at Fort Bragg.
He is one of eight soldiers charged in the death of 19-year-old Pvt. Danny Chen, of New York.
Military officials say Chen shot himself last year in Afghanistan after weeks of physical and emotional abuse. They say he was taunted for his Chinese-American ethnicity.
Holcomb faces a slew of charges, the most serious of which is negligent homicide. He faces nearly 18 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
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