![]() ![]() “To forgive them would mean I have to acknowledge they exist, and to me, they are nothing. O’Neal told ESPN in a televised interview that he wasn’t ready to think about or to forgive the Rangers who fired at him and Tillman. Tillman and his companions had been firing at an enemy position, but Elliott’s truck of soldiers misinterpreted the gunfire, Army investigators determined. “I still fired on a friendly position and that wouldn’t change my sense of responsibility.” “Even if somebody else was identified through forensic science as to have fired the ‘fatal shot,’ that doesn’t change how I feel,” Elliott said in the interview. Months later, he and the others who mistakenly fired at Tillman were demoted out of the elite Rangers unit. He said he was speaking out because he wanted to give hope to other soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.Įlliott said the incident was his first firefight. Elliott, discussing the incident in the media for the first time, said he has been able to cope with the April 22, 2004, tragedy because of therapy. “It would be disingenuous for me to say there is no way my rounds didn’t kill him, because my rounds very well could have,” Steven Elliott said in an interview with ESPN that aired Sunday. ![]() ![]() But one of the three Army Rangers who opened fire says he can’t shake the fact that he might be at fault. Ten years after Pat Tillman’s death by friendly fire, it’s still not certain who shot the NFL player-turned-Army-corporal in Afghanistan. ![]()
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