An Army investigation has determined the death of a soldier earlier this year in a medical barracks at Fort Huachuca was a negligent homicide.
Pfc. Eli Baker, 22, died as the result of a morphine overdose, said Chris Grey, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command.
“We have reason to believe that someone supplied him with that morphine, but he was not prescribed that morphine,” Grey said.
Baker, from California, had recently finished boot camp and was still in training when he was found dead Jan. 28 in Fort Huachuca’s Warrior Transition Unit, which provides medical and mental-health support for soldiers wounded in action or for troops recovering from other medical conditions.
It is not known if charges will be filed in Baker’s death, Grey said, because that determination will be made by Fort Huachuca officials.
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Baker is one of two soldiers to have been found dead in the fort’s Warrior Transition Unit this year. The second, 22-year-old Pvt. Paul Muse of Oklahoma, was found dead Nov. 8.
His death is still under investigation, Grey said.
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