(CNN) A decade ago, US Marine Col. Michael Stahlman was serving in Iraq when he was found in his bed, mortally wounded with a gunshot wound to his left temple. Stahlman was evacuated by air for emergency treatment, and later moved to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside , where he died two months later. The military medical examiner ruled the 45-year-old colonel's death a suicide. But CNN's Deborah Feyerick reports that when his wife, Kim Stahlman, received the news that her husband was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his left temple, the first thing she thought was, "He's not left-handed." When he died in 2008, Stahlman was one of the highest-ranking officers to die in the Iraq war.

Source: CNN June 11, 2017 00:11 UTC