
NEWARK, N.J. — An Army tank crew member has become the third Newark resident to be killed in the war in Iraq.
Officials at Fort Riley, Kan., and the Department of Defense identified the soldier as Spc. Yoe M. Aneiros, 20.
They said he died Tuesday when enemy troops attacked his patrol vehicle in Sadr city with rocket-propelled grenades.
Aneiros served in the 2nd Battalion, 70th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, which deployed to Iraq in June. Aneiros also had served a tour in Iraq last year.
Fort Riley said he enlisted in the Army in September 2002.
“Yoe M. Aneiros was truly one of Newark’s best,” Newark Mayor Sharpe James said. “A...