Ernest Medina, key figure in My Lai Massacre, dies at 81

Former Army captain Ernest L. Medina, a key figure in the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War, died May 8 in Wisconsin. He was 81.

Medina was an Army captain on March 16, 1968, when American troops under his command killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians. He was acquitted in a court-martial.