Navy: Murder charge filed in gay seaman’s death

[WillParkinson]

Source: The Associated Press

Navy: Murder charge filed in gay seaman’s death
By The Associated Press
07.24.2009 7:01am EDT

(San Diego) The U.S. Navy says a sailor has been charged in military court with murder and other offenses in the shooting death of a gay San Diego seaman.

Petty Officer Jonathan Campos of Lancaster, Calif., was charged Thursday in connection to last month’s fatal shooting of Seaman August Provost of Houston.

Provost was shot multiple times as he stood guard at Camp Pendleton on June 30. The 29-year-old’s family believes the shooting may have been a hate crime. The family says Provost complained of being harassed about his sexuality in the days before his death.

Navy officials have rejected those claims and say there is no record of Provost filing a harassment report.

They say Campos, a 32-year-old gas system technician, is being held at the brig and is cooperating with investigators.

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[Soylent Brice]

1. K&R

[TommyO]

2. Of course he didn't file a harassment report, it would have opened him to investigation

under Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

[joeybee12]

5. I know...that disgusting policy really left him no recourse...

another reason it needs to go, as if we didn't have enough already.

[BlueJazz]

3. I find it hard to believe that a Gay Man would be harassed in the Navy.

He must have made up that stuff.

And every Easter all the little Bunnie-Wunnies come out of their den, get their little bunny baskets and deliver all the brightly-colored Eggs to all the sweet children.

[Indydem]

4. I want more facts

It sounds like the person who murdered Provost was out on a spree to end his life one way or another:

He broke into a home and stole a gun
He tried to hire someone to harm another sailor
He broke into a military facility
He killed a sailor with the stolen gun
He set fire to the base, the sailor's body, and a piece of equipment

If he was doing all of this because he hated a gay sailor, he sure took the long route about town to kill him.

[justiceischeap]

6. Some people REALLY hate gay people

Look at the Matthew Shepard case. Dudes drove him quite a ways away to tie him to a fence out in the middle of nowhere.

[Canuckistanian]

7. What? This hasn't been swept under the rug?

What a shocking breach of military tradition.