
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A 28-year-old Charlotte man prompted to join the Marines after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was killed by an explosive last week in Iraq, his family said Sept. 20.
Lance Cpl. Gregory Howman was killed when an explosive device went off while he was on a late-night patrol Sept. 15 in Iraq’s Anbar province, his family said.
Born in Atlanta, Howman grew up in Charlotte, where he played baseball at Olympic High School, eventually earning a GED.
Though he had talked about joining the military while growing up, he put that off, getting work with a residential stone distributor instead. After the terror attacks on New York...