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The brother of a Marine who died a year ago during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan killed himself at a shrine to his sibling.
Dakota Halverson, 28, from Norco, California, took his own life on August 9.
His brother, Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, 20, was one of 13 American troops killed on August 26 last year, when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive outside the Kabul airport amid fleeing crowds.
'Dakota had been expressing some of the things that had been bothering him and one of those things was the loss of his brother Kareem and how he just wanted to be with him again,' said Shana Chappell, their mother.
'He was still having a hard time believing he was actually gone.
'He'd sneak into the cemetery at night and sleep on Kareem's resting place.
'He took his life across from a
