[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar, 34, died of asphyxiation on June 4, 2017, during a 'prank' by two SEALs and two Marines
- Staff Sergeant Kevin Maxwell Jr. pleaded guilty Thursday charges including negligent homicide, hazing and making false official statements
- He was sentenced to four years at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina
- The US Special Forces broke into Melgar's room, planned to choke him into unconsciousness and tie him up with duct-tape, to humiliate him
- Upon noticing Melgar was not breathing after binding his feet, they tried to revive him and later in a clinic he was pronounced dead
- SEAL Chief Petty Officer Adam C. Matthews pleaded guilty to lesser changes in exchange for his testimony and was sentenced to one year in military prison
- New information revealed by Marine Staff Sgt. Kevin Maxwell, claims the group planned to film a sexual assault upon Melgar to embarrass him
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