"The government wants you to believe that Chief Gallagher flipped from Dr. Gallagher's attorneys said there are a number of things that could have caused the militant's death, including internal injuries from the blast.ĭefense attorney Marc Mukasey called it "a weak, evil, Hail Mary farce of a case" that never should have made it to the court. Giorgio Kirylo said after the militant died that he moved the body to take a "cool guy trophy" photo with it and saw no stab wounds on his neck. It also showed Gallagher pulling out his medical bag and treating the detainee.Īn Iraqi general who handed the wounded prisoner to the SEALs testified that Gallagher did not stab the boy. The defense showed videos clips by an Iraq TV crew of the prisoner being interviewed after he was hit, then arriving at the SEAL compound and being handed over to the SEALs by the Iraqi troops. Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher in Iraq in 2017. The two-week trial included the testimonies of nearly a dozen SEALs, including Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Corey Scott, a medic, who told the court that he saw the chief stab the Islamic State militant in the neck but stunned the court when he said he was the one who ultimately killed the prisoner by plugging his breathing tube with his thumb as an act of mercy. The panel will weigh whether Gallagher, a 19-year veteran on his eighth deployment, went off the rails and fatally stabbed the war prisoner on May 3, 2017, as a kind of trophy kill, or was the victim of allegations fabricated after the platoon returned to San Diego to stop him from getting a Silver Star and being advanced. The case of the highly decorated Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher is now in the hands of a jury of five Marines and two sailors, including a SEAL, many of whom had been in heavy combat in Iraq.īoth sides told jurors that witnesses had lied on the stand and it was their duty to push through the evidence to find the truth.
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