Kamisha J. Block
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Age: 20
From: Vidor, Texas
Assigned to the 401st Military Police Company, 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Spc. Kamisha J. Block died Aug. 16 in Baghdad of injuries sustained from a non-combat-related incident. Also killed was Staff Sgt. Paul B. Norris.
Died: August 16, 2007
Southeast Texas soldier killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
VIDOR, Texas — A Southeast Texas soldier has died in Iraq, the Department of Defense announced Aug. 21.
Spc. Kamisha Jane Block, 20, died Aug. 16 in what military officials called “a non-combat-related incident.” But her family told the Beaumont Enterprise that she died in a friendly fire incident.
“She was shot in the chest by friendly fire,” Block’s aunt, Kathy Byerley, told the newspaper. “They haven’t told us anything else — the rest is under investigation. We just want to know the truth about it.”
When asked whether Block had died in a friendly fire incident, Paul Prince, a spokesman for the U.S. Army III Corps and Fort Hood, would only say there was an ongoing investigation into her death.
Block, a Vidor native, joined the military in July 2005 as a military police officer and was...