
WASHINGTON — A soldier from Sandusky, Ohio, was killed in Iraq last weekend in an explosion near his Army patrol, the Army said Tuesday.
Spc. Charles E. Odums II, 22, died Sunday in Baghdad when a bomb exploded near the patrol, according to Army officials.
He was assigned to Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, based out of Fort Hood, Texas.
His parents live in Sandusky.
Annie Odums was expecting a Memorial Day phone call from her son in Iraq. Instead, the Army told her that 22-year-old Spc. Charles E. Odums II, of Sandusky, had been killed on...