Prosecutors are now considering bringing him up on perjury charges for lying in previous statements to investigators. Scott was granted immunity for his testimony, so he can't be tried for the murder of the teenager. The decorated Navy SEAL had been accused of stabbing the wounded teenage captive, as well as attempted murder of Iraqi civilians and obstruction of justice. I wanted to save him from waking up to what had happened next," Scott said. The young Islamic State fighter authorities say was murdered by Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward Eddie Gallagher. Scott said he asphyxiated the teen after Gallagher had stabbed him to save him from his Iraqi captors. Later on the stand, Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Corey Scott said he was the one who killed the teenage fighter. Two prosecution witnesses testified they saw Gallagher stab the teenager, and the prosecutors presented texts that they said showed Gallagher bragging about the killing. Former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who was found not guilty of the charge of murder in the death of a young Islamic State detainee in Iraq in 2017, has made the bombshell allegation that the detainee died as part of a plan to practice medical procedures on him and that his fellow SEALs had all agreed to the idea. The jury of five Marines and two sailors reached a not guilty verdict after the prosecution and defense made their closing arguments Monday. Gallagher, a chief special warfare operator, was accused by several members of his own platoon of killing an already injured teenage ISIS fighter in Iraq in 2017, as well firing at civilians.
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