Posted on 10/31/2003 9:50:19 AM PST by eabinga
Three Of Jessica Lynch's rescuers are dead. Also a member of the 507th Maintenance Company killed himself.
July 7, Josh Speer
(AP) A U.S. Marine who was part of the unit that helped rescue Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch died in a car crash on his first weekend home since returning from Iraq.
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August 23, David M. Tapper
Killed in Afghanistan, the Navy SEAL was part of the Iraq team that rescued POW Jessica Lynch.
Tapper, 32, died there Wednesday while conducting combat operations in a lawless province near the Pakistani border - an area where the military believes the terrorists are operating.
Friends here said Tapper was shot in the back during an ambush. He died later at a hospital at Bagram Air Base, the Navy said.
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Octctober 3, Kyle Williams
The soldier, Spc. Kyle Edward Williams, 21, was found dead outside San Diego on Thursday and officials believe he committed suicide with one of the seven firearms he had been carrying with him.
Williams spent seven months in the Middle East as part of the 507th Maintenance Company, the same unit as Pfc. Jessica Lynch, Army officials said.
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October 22, Sok Khak Ung
LONG BEACH, California (AP) -- A Marine who helped in the rescue of Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch in Iraq was shot to death at a family barbecue, just 12 days before he was to be discharged.
Lance Cpl. Sok Khak Ung, 22, and a family friend, Vouthy Tho, 21, were killed early Sunday in a garage at a Long Beach home by a gunman who fired six to eight shots before fleeing, police said.
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This little bit of over-the-top hyperbole aside.........your #20 is excellent; very well said.
But why a red flag for the Marine? I doubt he even knew he was part of the rescue at the time. He wasn't intimately involved in any way shape or form with the details of that operation. It would make absolutely no sense at all to whack him when there were dozens of others who were intimately involved and when that Marine's buddies are still running around alive.
Well, that was a little tongue in cheek there ;-) But one person listed in the article did die in a car accident- which is a common way to die in the States.
LONG BEACH -- A man was shot to death Wednesday in the 1500 block of East 68th Street, Long Beach police said.
The man was standing next to a vehicle when he was apparently the victim of a drive-by shooting, said Officer Greg Schirmer.
Area residents said they heard between five and eight shots fired at approximately 8 p.m.
"There were two shots,' said Angela, a resident who would not reveal her last name, "then a pause and a whole string after that.'
Police would only say a male of undetermined race was killed. However, residents said the victim appeared to be an older, bald black man.
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Drive-by victim was husband, son, pal
LONG BEACH -- Two more children in Long Beach have lost a father...
Francis Joel Rivers was shot by an unknown assailant about midnight Oct. 14 on a lawn outside a house in the 1400 block of Cerri tos Avenue. He was taken to St. Mary Medical Center, where he died in the same hospital in which he was born 26 years ago....
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LONG BEACH Two men were wounded in an apparent drive-by shooting Thursday night, police said. But there was little information available regarding the 7:39 p.m. attack, said Sgt. Paul LeBaron, a Long Beach Police Department spokesman.
Police and paramedics were called to the 1000 block of 17th Street after the two victims were shot, LeBaron said.
One of the victims was hit in the foot and taken by private ambulance to a hospital.
The second victim was hit in the hip and in the middle torso and taken to a hospital by a friends. His condition was unknown, LeBaron said.
The reason for the shooting was not immediately known.
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Here's something- a Cambodian gang connection in the same area:
Jones to stand trial in shootings of woman, son
LONG BEACH -- A Superior Court judge Wednesday ordered an alleged gang member to stand trial on multiple felony counts, including murder, after an eyewitness testified that he saw the suspect kill a teacher in June.
During a preliminary hearing Wednesday, the eyewitness said that Melvin James Jones, 22, fired the shots that killed Patricia Anne Miller and wounded her son Michael on June 22.
Around 9 p.m., Miller, 52, and her son, 12, were driving to a coin- operated laundry near their Central Long Beach apartment. As Miller was making a U-turn near Alamitos Avenue and 15th Street, her car was hit by bullets.
Miller, a dean at Gompers Middle School in Los Angeles, was shot in the stomach and died hours later at a hospital. Her son, shot in the shoulder, survived.
Although Jones is black, Det. Onorio Galvan of the LBPD's Gang Enforcement Unit said that he is a member of a predominantly Cambodian gang. The witness who testified at Wednesday's hearing is a minor who is a member of that gang.
Jones, the witness and a woman left a party at an Orange Avenue apartment to go a nearby liquor store. On their way back, the witness said that he saw a white car drive past, then heard gun shots. He said that he turned around and saw Jones fire multiple rounds at the car.
Within hours, police discovered Jones and two guns, including the 9-mm handgun used in the attack, in the bedroom of that apartment, said Det. Robert Erickson of the LBPD.....
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I don't know much about Long Beach, but it sounds like a dangerous place.
The Washington Post needs another story?
(A media conspiracy not a military one?;-)
and yet. Look at those two shootings in the USA.
That may be the only truly odd coincidence.
I have this picture in my mind, The Outlaw Josey Wales. But why would anyone need seven guns to commit suicide? ... Unless he had help?
The latter question doesn't even make sense.
No, Lynch is not involved in the NBC tv movie in any way. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/960826/posts
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