NEW YORK (AP) — Chinese-Americans decrying the suicide of a teenage Army private who investigators say was hazed because of his ethnicity left Monday for the court martial of the first of eight U.S. soldiers accused of pushing him to the edge.

Dozens of supporters of Danny Chen’s family held a news conference in Manhattan on Monday before some boarded a van for the 10-hour trip to North Carolina, where the trial starts at Fort Bragg on Tuesday.