The lawyer of the U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians on Sunday says his client is in “shock.” The lawyer, John Henry Browne, stated that his client had been re-deployed to Afghanistan after he’d been promised that his third tour of duty in Iraq would be his last. He also told reporters that his client suffered a head wound and lost part of a foot while he was in Iraq. Yet another detail emerged when the lawyer reported that the day before the rampage, the soldier was standing next to a friend at their base in southern Afghanistan when the other man’s leg was blown off.
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