Story highlights The New York Times reports the Green Beret was strangledThe report comes as the US military's role in Africa undergoes heightened scrutinyWashington (CNN) The Navy is investigating whether two members of the Navy's elite SEAL Team Six killed an Army Green Beret in Mali in June, a US official told CNN Sunday. Naval Criminal Investigative Service spokesman Ed Buice confirmed to CNN the NCIS investigation into the death of Army Staff Sgt. Melgar was a Special Forces Engineer Sergeant, according to a statement from the US Army Special Command. Military officials told CNN that a military examiner ruled Melgar's death while on assignment in the African nation of Mali as a homicide. A US official told CNN jurisdiction for the investigation shifted from the Army investigation service to the Navy in September.

Source: CNN October 29, 2017 22:30 UTC