Investigations into alleged hazing and maltreatment of recruits have found evidence of a toxic command climate at the Marines’ training center at Parris Island, South Carolina, going back more than two years, according to Marine documents reviewed Wednesday by NBC News. Detailed results of the investigations — one of them reviewing the alleged suicide of a new recruit in March — have been forwarded to prosecutors for “drafting of charges as warranted,” according to one of the documents. The Marine Corps said last week that the inquiries focus on three platoons of the Third Recruit Training Battalion. It said 20 training personnel had been “identified for possible military justice or administrative action,” confirming a report by NBC News that the personnel — a mix of drill instructors and officers — were directly involved in hazing or had ignored evidence that it was going on.
Police say a 2-year-old South Carolina boy found a gun in the car he was riding in and shot his grandmother in the back.
Authorities were trying to determine Monday whether to file charges against the woman's sister, who owns the gun.
Rock Hill police Capt. Mark Bollinger said the 40-year-old woman is expected to survive. She and the child were riding in her sister's car on Sunday afternoon when the boy found a .357 revolver in the pouch on the back of the front seat and fired the weapon.
Bollinger says the injured woman's sister owns the revolver.
Investigators are trying to determine whether the child was in a car seat or if any gun laws were violated.
Police didn't release the names of the child or the women.
