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A military spokesman told the Associated Press prosecutors will likely continue their case against Gallagher despite Scott's testimony. Prosecutors say Scott cannot be persecuted for his testimony on the stand, but he can be prosecuted for perjury. Scott told the court that the detainee was “going to die anyway” and he did not want the teen to suffer or be tortured after he woke up.ĭuring cross-examination, Scott admitted that he did not want to see Gallagher go to jail. RELATED: Fellow SEAL says he was responsible for ISIS teen's death, not accused chief

Scott said Gallagher unexpectedly plunged a knife just under the ISIS detainee’s collarbone, and that action prompted him to suffocate the teen in an act of mercy. In a shocking turn of events, Navy SEAL Special Operations First Class Corey Scott testified on Thursday that it was he - and not Special Operations Chief Gallagher - who suffocated an injured ISIS fighter by putting his thumb over the victim’s tracheal tube until he stopped breathing.

Special Operator Dalton Tolbert texted fellow SEALs later to say he fired more warning shots to save civilians from Gallagher than he shot at Islamic State militants. Neither witness saw Gallagher fire the shots, defense attorneys argued. The fellow SEALS said they did not see Gallagher pull the trigger, but they heard shots come from his perch as the victims were struck, the Associated Press reported. Two snipers said Gallagher, a decorated serviceman, shot a young girl and a man in Iraq in 2017. SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – More Navy SEALs and DNA experts took the witness stand Friday, one day after bombshell testimony was delivered in the war crimes trial of Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher.