we just have a bad feeling that we re not going to be able to ever get home. i feel these people here are going to turn on us. he says they re just not right. reporter: gregory buckley says his son had a premonition that proved true. lance corporal gregory buckley jr. was murdered in afghanistan in august 2012, just three days before he was scheduled to come home. it wasn t a fire fight on a battlefield or an improvised explosive device. the 21-year-old was working out at the base gym when a 17-year-old afghan walked in with an ak-47 and emptied the clip, killing buckley and two others. i want them to admit that they were wrong, and i want somebody to be held responsible for my son s death. reporter: buckley is suing the marine marine corps for information about his son s death. he says supervisors allowed an unsavory afghan police chief to live on the base. he was allegedly involved in selling drugs, uniforms and weapons to the taliban and brought young, so-called t boys
for answers. he said we just have a bad feeling that we re not going to be able to every get home. i feel that these people here are going to turn on us. he said it s just not right. reporter: gregory buckley had a premonition that he would never return. he was killed in 2012, just three days before he was scheduled to come back home. it wasn t a fight on a battlefield,or an improvised explosive devooirs. the a 17-year-old afghan walked in with an ak-47 and em emptyied the clip. i want somebody to be held responsible for my son s death. reporter: buckley is suing the marine corps, it s cormer comemandant commandant, he says supervisors ignored warning and allowed an ahn savory afghan police chief to live on the base. john was allegedly involved in
of a cover-up in the death of their son. lance corporal greg buckley jr. was gunned down in an insider attack on an american base in afghanistan in 2012. his family is now turning to sue the marine corps in a search for more information about how he died. rick leventhal live in our new york city newsroom with more on that. rick? jon, this is a highly unusual lawsuit filed by a frustrated gold star family against the marine corps and department of defense not seeking any financial settlement, just information about how their son died. facts they re entitled to under federal law. he says we just have a bad feeling that we re not going to be able to ever get home. he says i feel these people are going to turn on us. he said they re not right. gregory buckley had a fatal premonition that turned true. he was brutally murdered in afghanistan in august 2012 just three days before he was scheduled to come home. it wasn t a firefight on a battlefield or an improvised explosive device. the
selling drugs and weapons to the taliban and bringing young boys on post to serve as sex slaves. it was one of the t boys that the opened fire on the marines. he was convicted and sentenced to seven years. but buckley s lawyer says the marine corps has been stonewalling the family s efforts to get an investigative autopsy report. we gave a child to the military to protect this country, he s killed and they basically have to beg the marine corps to griffin them the information they re entitled to them. there s an autopsy report, afternoonan ncis criminal investigation none of which they have received. still ahead, the deadly year for commercial aviation continues. just how safe is the plane you may be riding on this holiday season? and someone claiming credit for
pentagon is stone walling his investigation. who killed the soldier and does the marine corps have info it s not releasing. it s all happening now. we begin with new developments in the search for that missing jetliner with 162 souls on board. as the search area is about to expand in a matter of hours. welcome to our second hour of happening now on this monday. i m john scott. i m in for juno lee. i m ar they will neville imt search planes are on the ground until morning but ships are still scouring the waters of the java sea for any sign of the airasia jet. we re told that the search will soon expand to land. the mystery goes on. objects have been spotted in the water, but are they related to the jet? we don t know. we have a reporter on the ground in malaysia. we ll be checking in with him shortly. meanwhile, jon there is this this. the longest war in american history is officially over. a ceremony marking the end of u.s. combat operation afghanistan as that country