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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — A Marine wanted by the U.S. military for abandoning his unit sneaked across the border into Canada and fatally shot himself outside his mother’s farmhouse, police said Friday.
Timothy Scott, 22, was holding a pistol when police found him in the road outside his mother’s home in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, said Sgt. Mark Gallagher of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
“Police spoke to him to try to talk him out of using the gun . . . and unfortunately the circumstances unfolded and he took his life,” Gallagher said.
The Marine had served at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and is thought to have left his unit around Tuesday, said Staff Sgt. Mark Furey.
