FORT CARSON, Colo.—An investigation is continuing into Fort Carson soldiers involved in using Facebook to tell the wife of another soldier that her husband was killed in Afghanistan.
Army officials say Ariell Taylor-Brown of Mobile, Ala., learned of her husband’s death through a chain of three soldiers and a Facebook message. Next of kin are supposed to be informed in person by uniformed personnel.
An Army spokesman initially said Friday that the soldier who told Taylor-Brown was reprimanded, but military officials later said no reprimand had been issued and the investigation was continuing.
Taylor-Brown’s husband, Staff Sgt. Christopher Brown of Columbus, Ohio, was killed April 3 by an insurgent bomb.
Taylor-Brown has said she got a Facebook message asking her to call someone immediately.
