A 30-year-old T&T Reg­i­ment cor­po­ral who died at the De­fence Force Head­quar­ters, Ch­aguara­mas on Sat­ur­day was stran­gled, an au­top­sy re­vealed yes­ter­day.

The au­top­sy was per­formed at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James yes­ter­day morn­ing by foren­sic pathol­o­gist Dr East­lyn Mc­Don­ald-Bur­ris.

The post-mortem re­port stat­ed that Lance Cpl Cur­tis Mar­shall died from as­phyx­ia and dis­pelled ear­li­er re­ports which in­fered that his death was the re­sult of a heart or asth­ma at­tack. The re­port al­so re­vealed that Mar­shall had sev­er­al marks of vi­o­lence to his neck.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors were said to have been wait­ing on the au­top­sy to con­tin­ue their in­ves­ti­ga­tion and have now deemed it a mur­der and have en­list­ed the help of homi­cide de­tec­tives of the Re­gion One Homi­cide Bu­reau.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, short­ly af­ter 9 pm, Mar­shall, a fa­ther of one of San Juan, went un­con­scious at the De­fence Force's Tetron base. He was rushed to the Sev­en Day Ad­ven­tist Hos­pi­tal in Co­corite where he died.

Mar­shall en­list­ed in the T&T Reg­i­ment on Au­gust 9, 2004.

In a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day evening, Mar­shall's broth­er Den­nis said that his fam­i­ly would be seek­ing jus­tice for his broth­er.

Den­nis al­so asked that the in­ves­ti­ga­tion be close­ly mon­i­tored to pre­vent an al­leged "cov­er-up." The fam­i­ly has al­so ex­pressed de­sire to take le­gal ac­tion against the T&T De­fence Force.