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“Their bodies were piled in a truck.”Īll of the family members, who endured grueling day-long briefings by U.S. "The Army had never told us that they'd been stripped of kit and weapons,” said a second grieving parent of one of the soldiers. Even their boots, wallets and jewelry were stolen.
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Africa Command investigators over the past week.Ī cellphone video released by the militants in March showed that the three Americans had been stripped down by the enemy after they were killed. "They were going to take the bodies away but they were scared off," said a member of a second family briefed by U.S. Black's body lay on the ground next to the vehicle. He remained missing for almost 36 hours before his remains were found.Īlmost four hours after the fight began, a Nigerien response force arrived and discovered Johnson and Wright's bodies had been loaded in the back of a pickup truck by the ISIS fighters. La David Johnson, 25, was killed later at a second location more than 700 yards away after he was unintentionally left behind while fighting alongside Nigerien partner forces. Jeremiah Johnson, 39, were killed fighting in one location near the remote village of Tongo Tongo, after they were surrounded while attempting to withdraw from the fight. Bryan Black, 35, and an Army support enabler, Staff Sgt. "The sad thing is, they didn't realize they'd been left behind, and by the time the other guys attempted to get to them, it was probably too late, and they'd been killed." They were abandoned," the parent of one of the American commandos who died told ABC News. "They were left on their own and it was The Alamo. commanders, families of the fallen soldiers and other sources briefed on the military investigation told ABC News. Four Army special operations soldiers killed in action during an ambush in Niger last October were part of a largely inexperienced and lightly-armed team outmatched by ISIS fighters who exploited bad decisions by U.S.