The Sensitive Sight Exploitation (SSE) process had begun and the detainees were being tested for gunpowder residue. Corrales stated that if anyone “popped” with residue that he wanted them brought to him. Not five minutes later somebody yelled “I got one”. Corrales cut the detainee’s flex cuffs off turned and took the interpreter’s AK-47. Corrales attempted to give the detainee the AK-47, but the he would not take it. Corrales shoved the man out the back door and pointed his M4 directly at him. Corrales asked the interpreter how to say “run” in Arabic, and then began repeating it to the detainee. Each time Corrales screamed at him to run the guy just shook his head “no” and kept his hands on top of his head. Corrales stopped screaming and in a very calm voice told him …show more content…
The man took one hesitant step backwards and Corrales opened up with his M4 and shot eight times. I was the only person that actually was able to see the entire event as it unfolded, due to my positioning in the house. I walked outside to where Corrales was standing over the man. All eight bullets hit the man, one in each lung, his legs, stomach, and face. Corrales had never been a good shot, his shot groups were terrible. The man had extreme uneven rise and fall of the chest which indicated pneumothorax (air in the chest cavity), he was struggling to breathe. Corrales looked over at me and told me to “finish him”, then walked back in the house. I know that Corrales realized what he had done and told me to finish him just to have someone else involved. I guess it made him feel more protected to have someone else involved. I was then left with a decision to make. If I disobeyed his order I would be kicked out of the Scout Platoon at the least and who knew the levels he could and would take it to. Then if I shoot this man I would have just committed murder. I found a third option, one that would satisfy