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Autopsy Report: Missing Soldier Drowned In Tennessee River

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Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2013 · News & Politics

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by Alyssa Spirato, ASpiratoNC9NewsChannel9 is learning new details in the mysterious death of an Ooltewah Soldier.February 25th, the body of US Army Specialist Bradley Rogers was pulled from the Tennessee River. It was certainly not the end to a two-week search his mother Jennifer was hoping for. She sat down with us the next day, in an emotional interview, pleading for answers in her son's death.He didn't deserve that. He survived two times in Iraq and Afghanistan. To come home where he's suppose to be safe and then he disappears. Then we end up having to pull him out of the river? That's just something that's totally devastating, said Jennifer Rogers.Unfortunately, the autopsy report into the young soldier's death may not provide any more comfort. It does however give a few answers. NewsChannel9 spent all afternoon digging through every detail and talking to the Davidson County medical examiner who performed it.The cause of death, accidental drowning. But his blood alcohol level was  0.27 almost four times the legal limit. That begs the question how did Rogers get from the Chattanooga nightclub to the Tennessee River? The Electric Cowboy in Brainerd to the river in Marion County is at least a 13-mile trip. It makes sense he wasn't alone.  Somebody knows something.How could they do that to my son? He was such a good boy. Our family is devastated, says Rogers.The medical examiner says it's unclear to say how exactly he drowned because there's no way to tell until investigators come forward with more leads. She says, however, if she gets word foul play may be involved, they would have to amend the autopsy and start over.

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