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Navy refutes stateside media reports on shooting

By Trina A. San Agustin
Variety News Staff

THERE were several online reports from the U.S., particularly in the Sheboygan, Wisconsin area that revealed some details of what happened on March 14 when a Navy Seabee was shot dead and another injured.
According to a report in the Green Bay Press-Gazette, a U.S. Navy Lt. Col. Kyra Hawn was quoted as saying that the alleged shooter, a Navy Seabee as well, “will be charged with shooting him intentionally.”
The deceased Seabee Petty Officer 2nd Class Jared Krutke, 24, of Wisconsin, left behind a wife, identified in reports as Nicole Krutke, and an 18-month-old daughter.
The shooting took place at Camp Covington in Sumay near a unit armory where Krutke worked as a gunner’s mate. The three men involved in the incident were attached to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 74.
Hawn went on to report that the injured recovering Seabee at the Naval Regional Medical Center on Naval Hospital was 20 years of age. There were other reports stating that the man being held in a brig on Andersen Air Force Base was only 23 years old.
Online reports from a television station in Wisconsin had a reporter interviewing Krutke’s wife and mother-in-law about the shooting.
Nicole Krutke told the reporter that she received a call from Guam informing her that her husband was shot and “it didn’t look good.” She went on to tell the television reporter that the Navy told her that the suspected shooter “just lost it.”