Raheel Siddiqui
Parris Island, Port Royal, South Carolina 29905, United States
Date of Birth: 12/15/1995
Date of Death: 3/16/2016
From: Taylor, Michigan
Death Location: Parris Island, South Carolina, United States
Cause of Death: Suicide (Hazing)
8 months into Delayed Entry Program; Severe Hazing
“Less than two weeks later, Raheel Siddiqui, 20, was dead. Authorities on Parris Island say the son of Pakistani immigrants leaped over a third-story barracks railing, killing himself. But allegations soon arose that he’d been hit and hazed by a drill instructor, and was slapped, perhaps repeatedly, just before his death. Despite that, a South Carolina coroner deemed it a suicide — an act his family insists that Raheel, as a faithful Muslim and a doting son, was morally and constitutionally incapable of making. ”