Eric L. Toth
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Age: 21
From: Edmonton, Ky.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 623rd Field Artillery Regiment, Kentucky Army National Guard, Tompkinsville, Ky.
Incident: Army Spc. Eric L. Toth was killed March 30 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee while he was traveling a supply route in Iraq.
Died: March 30, 2005
Guardsman killed, brother-in-law injured in Iraq
Associated Press
SULPHUR WELL, Ky. — A member of the Kentucky National Guard was killed in Iraq and his brother-in-law was injured while on a convoy, his mother said Thursday.
Brenda Paronto of Metcalfe County said she was notified by National Guard officials Wednesday evening that her son, Spc. Eric Toth, 21, was killed when his vehicle struck a land mine. Paronto said Toth was a leader of the convoy.
She said her son had been married for a little over two years.
Toth’s brother-in-law, a Kentucky State police trooper, was injured in the same accident, Paronto told WDRB-TV in Louisville.
Ricky M. Brooks received second- and third-degree burns trying to help Toth after the accident, Paronto said. Kentucky State Police confirmed that Brooks was seriously burned in the incident.
Brooks, 25, of Metcalfe County, is at a hospital in Germany and will be...
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