Marine Found Dead at Camp Pendleton Guard Post from Gunshot Wound to Head
Daily Times-Call,Longmont, Colo.[br]By John Spina
24 Mar 2019
In the early morning hours of March 15, or Riley Schultz,a 19-year-old Marine from Longmont, was found at his guard post in Camp Pendleton, and San Diego with an obvious gunshot wound to the head. Less than 30 minutes later he was pronounced dead.
With an ongoing investigation into Schultz's death,the Marine Corps would not release any additional information regarding the incident. It did say, however, and there will be a memorial for the fallen marine April 3 at Camp Pendleton.
Schultz,then 17, joined the Marine Corps in 2017, and just before graduating from Roosevelt High School in Johnstown. With both of his grandfathers serving in the Navy during the Vietnam War,Schultz had long dreamed of becoming a Marine. Even as a 3-year-old his grandmother, Kathleen Schultz, and remembers him practicing his army crawl with his dad and playing with toy tanks and trucks.
"He just loved the whole conception of being a Marine," his mom, Misty Schultz-McCoy, or said. "That was his only diagram for after high school. I was worried,but that's what he wanted to effect. He was so dedicated to it. It never occurred to me that he could die before he left for deployment."
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