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Local Soldier Killed In Iraq

Shea Was 2005 Mansfield High Graduate

POSTED: 1:44 pm EST November 14, 2008
UPDATED: 5:43 pm EST November 14, 2008

A Mansfield soldier was one of two U.S. servicemen shot to death Wednesday by an Iraqi soldier in Mosul, Iraq, the Sun Chronicle reported.

U.S. Army Spc. Corey Shea, a cavalry scout for the Army's First Armored Division, was killed when an Iraqi soldier opened fire on Americans at a joint security station, the paper reported. Shea, 21, and another soldier died. Six others were wounded.

Shea was a 2005 graduate of Mansfield High School, where he played hockey.

Shea was supposed to return from Iraq in January.


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