According to a press release from the Pender County Sheriff’s Office, the three Marines who were found dead inside a vehicle in North Carolina died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

The autopsies, which were conducted on Wednesday, confirmed that all three deaths were consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning.

The Marine Corps has since identified the deceased as Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Merax C. Dockery, 23, from Pottawatomie, Oklahoma; Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Ivan R. Garcia, 23, from Naples, Florida; and Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Tanner J. Kaltenberg, 19, from Madison, Wisconsin.

Dockery’s mother had alerted the Pender County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday morning, stating that her son, stationed at Camp Lejeune, did not arrive on his flight in Oklahoma the previous night, ABC News has reported.

The Pender County Sheriff’s Office had received a call about a missing person, and during their investigation, they tragically discovered the bodies of the three men inside a car at a Speedway convenience store in Hampstead, North Carolina, as detailed in a press release on Tuesday.

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