5th Navy sailor charged in connection to death of sailor

A fifth

sailor

is now

charged

in

connection

with the

death

and alleged cover-up of another

sailor

at a Southern California military base. Our Team 10 investigative reporter, Jennifer Kastner, was at today's hearing at Camp Pendleton, that's where the sailor was

charged

with manslaughter of this sailor. is a corpsman, which is a type of doctor, our cameras were not allowed in the courtroom behind me for the hearing inside a Camp Pendleton courtroom on Tuesday, a fifth Navy corpsman was charged in

connection

with the 2019 shooting

death

of fellow hm-3 corpsman michael. vincent de leon has been a cover up i mean, right now i'm not going to go i'm not going to back down this has been a cover up de leon's father jose and mother sandra spoke to abc 10 news right after the hearing where hm2 edmond maybane was formally charged with involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and obstruction of justice by giving false information to a 9-1-1 operator according to a prosecutor to see the person who was the last one I saw my son alive is not easy de león said their son captured this Snapchat video before he was shot during a party with another doctor at a home on the 29 Palms base located northeast of san diego prosecutors have said the doctor was drinking and had guns in dry simulating his discharge without live ammunition before a fatal bullet was fired, Delions claimed doctors attempted to hide the truth after ABC 10 News confirmed through sources with close military ties that their son's death was being investigated as a homicide and not a suicide as they said they were first led to believe this summer hm1 ryan dinney, the senior doctor associated with the investigation, was found guilty in part of dereliction of duty resulting in death, He was sentenced to one hundred days in prison and a reduction in rank from e6 to e5 which resulted in a drop in his salary hm2 Mason Williams was found guilty of dereliction of duty and disorderly conduct dropping his ring from e4 to e1 with a reduction salary in July the Marines confirmed that two other members of the medical corps were also charged in connection with the death, but the scheduled procedures were not publicly accessible at the time, the De Leóns were disappointed by how it all played out, we can say these big words like justice, honor, no, it's not happening here, we haven't seen it here, but he's not going to hand over the defense judge who oversaw Tuesday's hearing will now take time to review the defense and prosecution submissions. and decide whether to recommend that the charges be dismissed or sustained.