BK family looks for answers in death of sailor

NEW YORK- WABC, Jan. 22, 2007) (WABC) -- The family of a sailor from Brooklyn who died in Iraq is looking for answers into how the death happened.

The Department of Defense says 22-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph D. Alomar died in what they describe as a non-combat related incident on Thursday.

He was assigned to a military police unit at Camp Bucca, a US run detention center in southern Iraq when he died. Officials say the death is under investigation. Alomar's death was not the result of hostile action, but occurred in a hostile fire zone, the Defense Department said.

Alomar's mother, told the New York Post that the family learned the her son was found with a bullet in his head.

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