U.S. Army won't release report on Tillman's death

WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Army said on Friday that at the family's request it will not make public a new report on Cpl. Pat Tillman's 2004 death in Afghanistan that confirmed the former professional football player was killed by friendly fire.

Les Brownlee, then-acting secretary of the Army, ordered a fresh investigation in November in response to questions raised by Tillman's family about the circumstances of his death in a remote canyon in southeastern Afghanistan on April 22, 2004.

Investigators visited the scene of the incident and interviewed soldiers involved before wrapping up more than four months of work in March, said Col. Joe Curtin, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon.

"There was no change to the original findings. The matter's closed," Curtin said. "It has concluded it was a fratricide." The full report will not be released, he said.

Tillman's mother had accused the military of burning her son's uniform to try to hide the circumstances of his death, and his father had said the initial investigation was a lie.

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