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SAN DIEGO - A sailor charged with killing a fellow sailor, who was gay, committed suicide in a military jail by stuffing toilet paper in his mouth until he could no longer breath, according to a U.S. Navy spokesman.

Petty Officer Jonathan Campos was found unresponsive in his cell at Camp Pendleton about 12:20 p.m. Friday, said Navy spokesman Doug Sayers. He was rushed to the base hospital where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.

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SAN DIEGO - The U.S. Navy says a seaman has been charged in military court with murder and other offenses in the shooting death of a gay sailor near California’s Camp Pendleton.

Petty Officer Jonathan Campos of Lancaster, Calif., was charged Thursday in last month's fatal shooting of Seaman August Provost, 29, of Houston.

Provost’s family believes the shooting may have been a hate crime. The family says Provost complained of being harassed about his sexuality in the days before his death.

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BEAUMONT, Texas - Relatives of a slain sailor are calling the 29-year-old's death a hate crime.

Rose Roy of Beaumont said her nephew, Navy Seaman August Provost III, had complained a year before about being harassed for being gay.

Roy said she advised Provost to report and document the incidents, but she said the military did little to help.

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