3 Marines found at N.C. gas station died of carbon monoxide poisoning, officials say

Signage stands on the main gate to Camp Lejeune Marine Base outside Jacksonville, N.C., on April 29, 2022. Three Marines, who had been stationed at Camp Lejeune, died of carbon monoxide poisoning at a gas station about 30 miles away, authorities said Wednesday. (Allen G. Breed/AP)

RALEIGH, N.C. — Three U.S. Marines found unresponsive in a car at a North Carolina gas station died of carbon monoxide poisoning, the local sheriff's office said Wednesday.

Deputies from the Pender County Sheriff's Office found the three men Sunday morning in a privately owned car parked outside a Speedway gas station in Hampstead. Autopsies performed Wednesday by the North Carolina Medical Examiner determined that all three deaths were the result of carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the sheriff's office.