
BALTIMORE — A Marine from the Baltimore area was killed in Iraq after a bomb exploded near a vehicle he was riding in, a relative said Wednesday.
Lance Cpl. Patrick Adle, 21, of Bel Air, was one of five Marines traveling to Baghdad in a Humvee on Tuesday when the roadside bomb blew up, said Joshua Tackett, Adle’s cousin.
Adle and two other Marines were killed, Tackett said in a phone interview from his home in Edgewood. Sgt. Alan D. Sherman, 36, of the Wanamassa section of Ocean Township, N.J., was identified by his ex-wife as one of the other Marines who died.
A Marine official in a public affairs office at Camp Pendleton, Calif., said Wednesday...