A SAILOR DEAD IN BAHRAIN AND A 'SLAP ON THE WRIST'FOR THE MAN WHO KILLED HIM

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Engineman 2nd Class Austin Williams had been in Bahrain for only three weeks when a Saudi driver killed him. The 22-year-old enjoyed his work on the mine countermeasures ship Sentry and was still discovering the Persian Gulf island nation, home to the Navy's 5 th Fleet. It was far from his hometown of Freeport, Maine, but his family said he enlisted to see the world. Williams had already made some friends in the barracks and was out barhopping with them on the night of April 5, 2018, according to a Naval Criminal Investigative Service report obtained by Navy Times. As midnight neared, they opted to jaywalk across Manama's Awal Avenue and grab a round at Wrangler, a popular bar just down the toad from the base. Williams made it to the median and stepped back into the four-lane thoroughfare, where a Chevrolet Caprice struck him, witnesses told NCIS investigators.