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Death of Colin McMillan, nominated for Navy secretary, ruled suicide
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Apr 03, 2005 02:06pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, July 26, 2003 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | AP Newswire article in Detroit News
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"The death of Colin McMillan, an oilman awaiting Senate confirmation as Navy secretary, was ruled a suicide by gunshot Friday.
McMillan, 67, was found dead Thursday at his 55,000-acre ranch in southern New Mexico, near the White Sands Missile Range.
"The cause is a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The manner is suicide," said Tim Stepetic, spokesman for the state medical investigator.
District Attorney Scot Key would not say whether McMillan left a suicide note. He said a handgun was found with the body.
McMillan "had a recurrence of cancer," but "everybody thought he was recovered, recuperating quite well," Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., said Friday on the Senate floor. Domenici had said the Senate would have confirmed McMillan soon.
Family spokesman Bill Owen downplayed the cancer, saying McMillan had a growth removed from his mouth in the past weeks and the prognosis was for a complete recovery.
"Based on everything we know, Colin was doing well and was waiting like the rest of us for Senate confirmation (as Navy secretary)," Owen said. "Everything was on 'go,' but it's a time-consuming process."
President Bush nominated McMillan in May for the Navy post, which had been vacant since Gordon England left in January to become deputy secretary of the new Homeland Security Department." |
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