FLINT, Mich. (AP) - An aunt says a combat engineer from Flint who was killed in an insurgent attack in Afghanistan volunteered for his latest deployment.
Martha Alexander says 25-year-old Sgt. Joseph Lilly "loved being a U.S. Army soldier."
The Pentagon says Lilly was injured June 12 in an attack in Kandahar province and died two days later.
Alexander said Monday her nephew was hit by a sniper's bullet only weeks before his death, sustaining a flesh wound that required a few stitches on his chin. She says Lilly "was just upset that he was sidelined."
Lilly was a Carman-Ainsworth High School graduate and also served in Iraq. He's survived by a wife and 3-year-old son.
His aunt says Lilly's body was flown to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware over the weekend.
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Tuesday, May 21 2013 2:03 PM EDT2013-05-21 18:03:08 GMT
Heartbreaking photos are coming out of Moore, Oklahoma after a tornado flattened much of the town Monday, killing dozens.
The Governor of Oklahoma says an untold number of people are still missing following the Moore tornado. Emergency crews continue the search for survivors. At least 24 were killed including nine children.
Monday, May 20 2013 11:15 PM EDT2013-05-21 03:15:43 GMT
Thousands of shipwrecks rest close to home and some local divers are on a mission to discover them. The weather on Lake Erie can be violent at times without much warning. Darkness, fog, wind and waves
Local divers are on a search to discover some of the thousands of shipwrecks on the bottom of Lake Erie.
Tuesday, May 21 2013 2:36 PM EDT2013-05-21 18:36:01 GMT
Coast guard crews are searching for a missing boater in Lake Erie. Authorities aren't releasing a name, but they say this person left Meinke Marina in Curtice, Ohio Monday afternoon. The person was due
Coast guard crews found a boater reported to be missing on Lake Erie Tuesday morning.
Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.
The search for survivors and the dead is nearly complete in the Oklahoma City suburb that was smashed by a mammoth tornado, the fire chief said Tuesday.
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