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BRIDGEWATER, Nova Scotia, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- A U.S. Marine who had served twice in Iraq went AWOL and headed to Canada, where he shot himself at his parent's llama farm in Nova Scotia, police said.
Lance Cpl. Timothy Scott is believed to have crossed the border carrying a gun he stole from his father's home in Norfolk, Va., Canwest News Service reported. He killed himself Thursday after his mother called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to report that her son had come to the house with a gun.
Scott had been posted AWOL at Camp Lejeune, N.C., after he disappeared Tuesday.
In a statement confirming Scott's identity, officers at Camp Lejeune said he enlisted in 2005 and had done two tours of duty in Iraq, the Jacksonville, N.C., Daily News said. The 22-year-old was a rifleman.
RCMP Staff Sgt. Mark Furey said Scott refused to drop his gun when officers arrived at the farm near Bridgewater. Instead, he put his hands in the air and then walked away.
When he was out of sight, police heard a single shot.
