Brother of Marine killed in Kabul airport bombing commits suicide year soon after attack

Brady Knox

August 14, 04:46 PM August 14, 04:46 PM

The brother of 1 of the 13 U.S. company associates killed in the Kabul airport bombing fully commited suicide at his memorial, practically one particular 12 months just after the attack.

Law enforcement claimed that Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui's older brother, Dakota Halverson, 28, died on Aug. 9. Their mom, Shana Chappell announced the heartbreaking news the very same day.

"The thirty day period of August has been very tricky so considerably with the a person yr coming up. I seem at my youngsters as robust and like they can manage something. That was my oversight. My son Dakota has been chatting a lot recently about how he just wishes to be with Kareem, how substantially he misses him, etc.... We all really feel that way so I didn't see the signals. This early morning my son Dakota went to be with his brother Kareem," she wrote in a Facebook put up.

City Corridor senior writer Julio Rosas (previously of the Washington Examiner) shared a connection to a GoFundMe web page established up by the mother. Far more than $24,000 was elevated as of press time.

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Law enforcement presented few aspects apart from confirming Dakota's death. The physique was found in Peak Pikes Park at 7:09 in the morning and the time of death was sometime right away, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Section in California. Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) exposed on Saturday that the 28-calendar year-old's demise had taken location at a memorial for his deceased brother.

"The older brother of just one of the 13 KIA in Kabul lately killed himself at his minor brother’s memorial. Make sure you pray for his family. There Should be accountability for this continued carnage," he tweeted.

On Aug. 26, 2021, Nikoui was standing atop a concrete website traffic barrier on the outskirts of Hamid Karzai Intercontinental Airport, furnishing safety for other U.S. service members and Afghan civilians fleeing imminent Taliban rule, when an suicide bomber 30 ft absent detonated a vest loaded with explosives and ball bearings, killing Nikoui together with 12 other servicemen and women of all ages and around 170 Afghans, in accordance to the Washington Submit. It truly is approximated that 45 other U.S. servicemen and ladies were wounded.

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Nikoui's mother has been a vocal critic of President Joe Biden and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley's handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 yrs of war, indicating they unnecessarily place her son in a unsafe problem that obtained him killed. She also has expressed the belief that the Pentagon lined up their mishandling of the evacuation of Afghanistan and airport bombing, with an investigative report contradicting a lot of eyewitness testimonies of the servicemen on the floor who survived the bombing.

Any one who is possessing thoughts of suicide or is familiar with a person who is getting them is recommended to get hold of the National Suicide Avoidance Lifeline at 988.