Report:
SEAL team commander dies in suspected suicide
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12/24/12 09:20 AM ET
.S. Navy SEAL commander Job
Price died Sunday in Afghanistan, in what the Department of Defense has
classified as a “non-combat fatality.”
"This incident is
currently under investigation," the DOD said in
a statement Sunday.
CNN
and NBC
News quoted an anonymous U.S. military official as saying the death was
being investigated as a suspected suicide.
Price, 42, from
Pottstown, Pa., was the commanding officer of SEAL Team Four, in charge of a
Navy Special Warfare unit based in Virginia Beach, Va.
According
to a Reuters
report, Price failed to show up for an event with colleagues on Saturday,
and was later found dead in his room.
Price leaves behind a
wife and a daughter.—This report was originally published at 8:32 a.m. and last updated at 9:20 a.m.
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