Funeral set for Marine slain in Beaufort barracks shooting

PORTLAND, Maine — A memorial service will be held in Maine for a 21-year-old Marine corporal slain in South Carolina.

The service for Cpl. Tyler Wallingford, of Standish, is set for Saturday at a funeral home in Portland.

Visiting hours are scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon with the memorial service to follow at A.T. Hutchins Funeral Home.

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Another Marine, also an ordnance tech with VMFAT-501, is a suspect in the incident and currently is in custody.

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The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating the April 12 fatal shooting of Wallingford at the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in South Carolina. A spokesman said they had detained a fellow corporal as suspect in relation to the investigation.

Both Marines were aircraft ordinance technicians with the Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501, based in Beaufort.

Wallingford came from a family of firefighters, and worked with the Standish Fire Department while in high school.

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