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Navy: Halsey sailor died in suspected suicide


By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Mar 30, 2009 20:04:48 EDT

SAN DIEGO — The sailor who died from a gunshot wound aboard the guided-missile destroyer Halsey is thought to have committed suicide, a Navy spokesman said Monday.

Sonar Technician (Surface) 3rd Class Gregory Egan, 32, of Ridgefield, Conn., was shot on March 22 aboard the ship, which is undergoing maintenance at a San Diego shipyard.

“It appears from a preliminary examination that (Egan) was killed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Lt. Cmdr. Bradley Fagan, a Naval Surface Forces spokesman in Coronado, Calif., said Monday. “There is no one else involved.”

Fagan said it may take a month for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service to finish looking into Egan’s death.

Egan’s mother had told the Danbury News-Times that he was shot in the head when another sailor’s weapon misfired. But Navy officials sought to correct the impression that the sailor might have been shot by someone else.

Egan, who was married, enlisted in the Navy in 2007. He graduated in 2000 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he studied theater and later pursued it as a career, writing several screenplays and appearing on the now-defunct prime-time NBC show “Third Watch,” according to his obituary in the Massachusetts Republican newspaper.

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