However, Graffam testified that on the same day he saw the man in black get shot, another witness, Petty Officer 1st Class Dylan Dille, told him he had seen a civilian wearing white get shot and Gallagher said something over the radio 'You guys missed but I got him. They said that stories about Gallagher shooting civilians from the sniper tower were 'made up' months later by SEALs planning a 'mutiny.' Some of the SEALs' testimony appeared to confirm parts of the prosecution's case.ĭefense attorneys and Gallagher's family have said repeatedly in interviews that Gallagher's teammates waited 'months' or 'a year' before reporting their chief for war crimes. Parlatore told the Union-Tribune this shooting was an example of a 'good shoot.' Gallagher's criminal charges do not mention this shooting. He said he never saw the chief shoot civilians but he saw Gallagher shoot an unarmed man dressed in black who he said was moving 'tactically' between structures. Petty Officer 1st Class Joshua Graffam also testified he had been with Gallagher several times in the tower, serving as his spotter. Alazzawi said he never saw Gallagher do that. The ex-SEAL who was convicted of posing with the corpse. In a surprise twist during the trial’s first week, a Navy SEAL medic testified that it was he, not Gallagher, who caused the death of the gravely injured Iraqi detainee by blocking his breathing tube in what the witness described as a mercy killing.Master Chief Brian Alazzawi said he had spent a week with Gallagher, including time in the sniper tower where prosecutors say Gallagher shot civilians. Eddie Gallagher called his Navy SEAL teammates cowards on Monday for testifying that he committed war crimes in a military trial. The closing arguments capped an otherwise bumpy two weeks for Navy prosecutors. “We know the death of this individual is a direct result of Chief Gallagher’s stabbing this individual in the neck with his hunting knife,” the prosecutor said. Pietrzyk cited a photo that Gallagher sent to a friend in May 2017 showing him posed with the Iraqi detainee’s corpse, with the text message: “I got a cool story for you when I get back. The senior prosecutor, Navy Commander Jeffrey Pietrzyk, asserted, however, that Gallagher had implicated himself. “No body, no evidence, no science, no forensics, no case,” Parlatore declared. He also pointed to a lack of physical evidence to bolster the charges.

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