Greenpeace activist facing trial dies

Published October 15, 2014 8:47pm ET



CINCINNATI (AP) — Greenpeace said Wednesday that one of nine activists charged with felony counts in an eye-catching protest at Procter & Gamble Co. headquarters has died.

Tyler David Wilkerson was 27 when he died Oct. 6. A cause of death was not made public. An Oct. 10 obituary in the Fresno (California) Bee newspaper said he served as a U.S. Marine in Afghanistan and Iraq. Greenpeace said family and friends gathered Sunday for a memorial service,

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