BOSTON -- A soldier from Roxbury has been killed in Iraq, a friend of the soldier's family told The Boston Globe Sunday.

Joan Duran, 24, was in his second tour in Iraq, Andrea Kelly, a family friend, told the newspaper. Duran was scheduled to come back home on leave later this month.

Kelly, who The Globe reported was present when Army officers notified the family of his death, said Duran was engaged to be married and a lifelong resident of Boston.