Marines investigating Michigan native’s death at Parris Island. Georgia man died in April
A Marine recruit from Michigan died Monday just a few days after arriving at U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Parris Island in what the Marines described as a non-training incident.
Additional details were not released by the Marines, who said the cause of death is under investigation.
Hartman, a native of Prescott, Mich., was assigned to Delta Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment and was in his sixth day of training.
It was the second recruit death at the base in three months.
Noah Evans, a 21-year-old from Decatur, Georgia, died April 18 during a physical fitness test. Evans was assigned to Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment.
In June 2021, Pfc. Dalton Beals, 19, of Pennsville, New Jersey, died during the last leg of the Crucible, the final training event before recruits become Marines. Staff Sgt. Steven Smiley has been charged with negligent homicide for Beals’ death. His trial is scheduled to begin in July.
In September 2021, 21-year-old Pvt. Anthony Muñoz, of Lawrence, Mass., died after “falling” from a balcony in an “apparent suicide,” MCRD Parris Island officials previously told the Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette.
