COUNTERING MILITARY RECRUITMENT
Articles: Leaving Military: General
Marine Accused of Firing on Crowd in Massachusetts
by not available, Associated Press
Dec. 23, 2005
LAWRENCE,
Mass. (Aug. 14) - A veteran recently named "Marine of the Year" for his
service in Iraq was charged with attempted murder after firing a
shotgun from his apartment window as a group of noisy revelers stood
outside a nightclub, police said.
Two people were hit by bullet fragments and suffered minor injuries.
Daniel Cotnoir, 33, had called police minutes earlier to complain about
the noise coming from the street shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday, The
Lawrence Eagle-Tribune reported.
He later told authorities someone had thrown an empty bottle through
his bedroom window and he feared for the safety of his wife and two
daughters, who were home, the newspaper reported.
Cotnoir was being held on $100,000 bail and scheduled to be arraigned Monday.
"It was the craziest night of my life," said Kelvin Castro, 20, one of
the two people injured. "I don't know what that guy's intentions were."
Cotnoir has frequently called police to complain about noise and fights
outside the Punto Finale nightclub. Last year, police said, he claimed
someone leaving the club had fired a gunshot at his apartment.
During his tour in Iraq last year, Cotnoir had been a military
mortician responsible for preparing soldiers for open-casket funerals.
The job took a heavy psychological toll, he told the Eagle-Tribune in
an interview last month after the Marine Corps Times named Cotnoir its
"Marine of the Year," an award presented to him at a ceremony in
Washington. At the time, he was getting counseling at a veterans
hospital.
"It's a lot harder to talk about the job now than it was at the time to
actually do it," Cotnoir told the newspaper then. "The stories I've
gained from my deployment aren't the kind of stories you share."
08-14-05 22:35 EDT
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