Family told: May take a year for autopsy on non-combat death

The family is told they may have to wait a year for the autopsy? What? A year of not knowing how their son died?

Funeral today for Sussex County soldier who died in Iraq
by Leslie Kwoh/ The Star-Ledger
Saturday July 19, 2008, 7:05 AM

Friends and family will gather in Newton today to mourn the death of Jeffery Stevenson, the 20-year-old Marine from Sussex County who died last Sunday in Iraq.

Lance Cpl. Stevenson, who grew up in Stillwater, died in a non-combat-related incident while serving as a machinist at Camp Fallulah in western Iraq, according to the Department of Defense. The circumstances surrounding the death are still unclear,

and military officials said it could be a year before they release autopsy results, the family said
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