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U.S. defense employee killed in Niger identified from Indiana |
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December 25, 2000
NIAMEY-- (UNB/AP) - A civilian employee of the U.S. Department of Defense who was shot and killed in an apparent carjacking in this West African country was identified Sunday as a retired U.S. Army officer from Indiana. Master Sgt. William Bultemeier, 51, was attacked about 1 a.m. Saturday as he was leaving a popular Niamey restaurant with a group of U.S. Embassy employees, an embassy statement said. Two men armed with a semiautomatic rifle and a pistol opened fire as Bultemeier was opening his car door. U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Christopher McNeely jumped into the line of fire to try to protect Bultemeier from further injury, the statement said. McNeely was shot in the arm, and Bultemeier received one more shot, which proved fatal. The assailants then fled the scene in Bultemeier's vehicle. The attack appeared to be a car robbery, and not politically motivated, an Embassy official said on condition of anonymity. Local police were investigating. McNeely, who is from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, was evacuated Saturday by the U.S. military to an air base in Germany for medical treatment. Bultemeier arrived in Niger in July to open a defense attache office at the U.S. Embassy. His hometown was not immediately available. Niger, one of the world's poorest countries, straddles the southern edge of the Sahara Desert.
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