“It’s about his own men who reported what they saw and the difficult journey they went on.” speaking of texts recovered from Gallagher’s phone.
“This case is about Chief Gallagher’s own words, ‘I got a cool story when I get back, I got my knife skills on,’ ‘I got him with my hunting knife’ and the pictures of a trophy photo with a knife facing straight down at the detainee,’” said Navy prosecutor Lt. He also is accused of shooting an old man who was getting water at the Tigris river, as well as a young girl. Gallagher, 40, was on trial for the murder of a 17-year-old ISIS fighter, as well posing for a photograph with the boy’s body while he and other SEALs held a reenlistment ceremony, during a 2017 deployment to Mosul. Prosecutors on Monday, July 1, told a seven-man jury in the court-martial that they should use Gallagher’s own evidence and their common sense to come back with a ruling of “guilty on all charges.” Gallagher could have served a maximum of four months for posing with the body of the corpse, but due to 201 days time served, he is walking free Tuesday.
A seven-man jury found Navy SEAL Edward “Eddie” Gallagher not guilty, Tuesday, July 2 in a San Diego court room for the premeditated murder of a teen ISIS fighter, as well as five other war crimes he was accused of committing during a 2017 deployment to Iraq.
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