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Drill Instructor Charged In NJ Marine Recruit Dalton Beals's Death Drill Instructor Charged In NJ Marine Recruit Dalton Beals's Death
Drill Instructor Charged In NJ Marine Recruit Dalton Beals's Death A senior Parris Island drill instructor has been charged in last year's death of a New Jersey Marine recruit. Staff Sgt. Steven Smiley was charged with negligent homicide, cruelty, oppression and more in the death of 19-year-old Pennsville native Pfc. Dalton Beals, a spokesman for the Marines tells the New York Times. Dalton BealsUS Marine Corps Beals' cause of death on June 4, 2021 was found to be hyperthermia, or overheating, during a 54-hour training exercise called The Crucible, according to Marine reports.  Temperatures that day had reached Black Flag conditions — 90 degrees or mo…

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by Cecilia Levine
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NJ Husband Surrenders In Crash That Killed Wife, Passenger In CT: Police NJ Husband Surrenders In Crash That Killed Wife, Passenger In CT: Police
NJ Husband Surrenders In Crash That Killed Wife, Passenger In CT: Police A New Jersey man has been charged in connection with a double-fatal Connecticut crash that killed his wife and another passenger last summer in Connecticut, authorities said. Juan Fernandez, 38, of Union City, surrendered to police on Wednesday, Aug. 17, and was charged with two counts of negligent homicide, among other charges in connection with the crash on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, in Middlesex County, on Route 15 in Woodbridge. Fernandez was behind the wheel of a Honda Accord that had seven people, including five people in the backseat, when he drove straight into a tree traveling at more …

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by Kathy Reakes & Cecilia Levine