Three colleagues of US Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton have revealed what they remember about what happened on the night Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude was killed.
Documents obtained by GMA News indicated Pfcs. Daniel Fabian Pulido, Jairn Michael Rose, and Benett Erik Dahl were with Pemberton when they went out for a night out of town during their “liberty time.”
In his sworn statement, Pulido said he was with Dahl and Rose at Willis or Nightlife Club (Ambyanz) on the night of October 11.
According to Pulido, they “went to a hotel for boom boom” when a “questionable-looking female” approached them.
“Your friend killed my friend,” he recalled her telling them.
She then led them to an entrance across Nightlife, which Pulido thought was a hotel.
“There was a security guard standing outside the door and the female standing right next to him. The female kept on pointing inside and kept on saying that ‘your friend killed my friend.’ After observing for a couple of minute, we left and came inside the cab. While inside the cab, we asked the driver to take us in HSV. Around 12:20 midnight when we arrived but Pemberton is still missing,” he said.
Rose’s account
Rose, in his affidavit, said he was leaving Willis Bar at 10:45 p.m. of Oct. 11 with Dahl, Pemberton and Pulido, before going to Ambyanz Nightclub.
When asked if he met somebody at the club, Rose said he met two females, and they agreed to have sex at a hotel. He said he left Dahl and Pulido at the club.
But at 11:50 p.m., between the club and hotel, he was told by a Filipino that his friends went there.
Another girl then told him, “Your friend killed my friend.”
Looking for Pemberton
Dahl, meanwhile, said he was at Willis Bar at 10:45 p.m. with Rose, Pemberton, and Pulido to hang out, before realizing that he was the only one there and everyone else had gone.
When he started looking for Pemberton at 11:30 p.m., he recalled a man telling him that “your friend killed someone.”
But at the time, he said he was drunk and did not know what the man was talking about.
In his statement, US Marine Christopher Blaine Miller, the rifle watch guard on duty outside USS Peleliu, said Pemberton returned alone while his three buddies returned earlier as a group.
“They all looked drunk, and when I asked them why they were late, they told that they were looking for each other,” said Miller.
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