May 18, 2013
FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. (AP) -- Authorities say a Fort Huachuca soldier in southern Arizona may have accidentally shot himself before a rollover accident.
Officials at the Army base say 22-year-old Sgt. Jacob M. Honeycutt died Sunday night following a crash on Highway 92 in Sierra Vista.
But the Cochise County Sheriff's Office said Thursday that Honeycutt had a single gunshot wound to the chest that appeared to be self-inflicted and two handguns were found in his car.
Sheriff's officials say Honeycutt was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly after the crash.
Base officials say Honeycutt was from Elizabethton, Tenn., and was training to become a Gray Eagle Unmanned Aerial System Operator and assigned to Company E, 2nd Battalion, 13th Aviation Regiment.
He entered the Army in July 2007 and is survived by his parents.
