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CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A young Marine who feared returning to Iraq per suaded his cousin to shoot him in the leg, then told police he was hit b y random gang gunfire, authorities said. The shooting early Saturday was meant to keep 19-year-old Moises Hernande z from going back to Iraq, prosecutors said. His cousin, Juan Hernan dez, 19, faces a felony weapons charge. Moises Hernandez is back with his unit at Camp Pendleton, California, and the Marines are investigating the incident. His unit had returned June 5 from a six-month deployment that included a month in Iraq. The man's father, Ray Hernandez, said his son also had been sent to Indon esia after the devastating tsunami in December. The father said his son had seen death up close and was troubled by nightmares when he returned home. "Whatever he experienced changed him totally," the senior Hernandez said.
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