Local Soldier Shot In Iraq Dies Of Wounds

BOSTON -- A soldier from Pembroke, who was shot by a sniper in Iraq, died of his wounds Thursday.

Army Pfc. Matthew Bean, 22, was removed from life support at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., his sister said.

Bean, a member of the Army's 10th Mountain Division, was shot in the head May 19 while searching for a fellow Massachusetts soldier and two others.

Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, and two comrades have been missing since a May 12 ambush about 20 miles outside Baghdad. The body of one of the three, Pvt. Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr., 20, of Torrance, Calif., was found May 22.

Bean underwent surgery in Germany and was flown to the United States on May 23.

Bean was a 2003 graduate of Silver Lake Regional High School in Kingston.