WILLIAM BRANGHAM:

As you mentioned, this whole investigation began when this 20-year-old Marine recruit, he was a man named Raheel Siddiqui. He was from Michigan.

He jumped off a third-floor balcony and fell to his death. The investigation that went into that death revealed that he had been physically abused by one of his drill instructors. He had had — the morning that he died, he went out and claimed that he had a sore throat and asked for a medical — to be sent to the doctor.

And his drill instructor apparently didn't believe him and made him run laps up and down the barracks when they were sleeping. He then apparently wasn't responding to his drill instructor appropriately, and so he was choked. He fell to the ground. And then his drill instructor apparently got over him and slapped him in the face at least once, perhaps three times, and which he jumped up at that point, ran out the back door and leapt off the balcony and fell to his death.

Now, the Marines have ruled this a suicide. His family believes he was targeted specifically and was abused intentionally. Apparently, this drill instructor involved in this had referred to this young man as a terrorist before.

The bigger thing that this investigation has revealed is that this particular drill instructor had been investigated prior to this for another instance of abuse on another Muslim recruit a year before, where he had apparently called this young man a terrorist also, had put him into a large commercial dryer, and run that dryer and burned the young recruit.