Stuttgart sergeant’s bizarre death leaves family in the dark

Stuttgart sergeant’s bizarre death leaves family in the dark
By Charlie Coon, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, November 4, 2007

The father was told by the Army that his 26-year-old son simply walked out on a balcony, lit a cigarette and dropped dead.

Now, more than three months later, Gregory D. Hunter Sr. is piecing together the truth.

His son, Sgt. Greg Hunter Jr. — the personal driver for the U.S. European Command’s chief of staff — died July 22 from a heroin overdose, according to medical examiners. That revelation has the elder Hunter on a quest to find answers that have been slow to come.

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The soldier’s fiancee also wants answers.

Maria-Christina Byrd wonders why she was kicked out of their apartment the very day Greg Hunter died, and why soldiers ran roughshod through their home even as the shock of his death was still sinking in.

“It’s crazy, but I felt so violated,” she said. “They were going through our bedroom stuff. They were going through my clothes. It’s like they just rolled in with a bunch of tanks and destroyed everything we stood for.”


Rest of article at: http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=50022

How did anyone know to come for the boy on the same day his dad died? His ex was contacted before his wife even knew what was going on?